Sunday, May 08, 2005

Bikies intimidated strikers: Union

A Melbourne plastics company has been accused of using bikies to intimidate striking women workers on a picket line. The National Union of Workers (NUW) called police after about 10 motorcyclists, some wearing bandannas to hide their faces, rode through the picket line, manned mostly by women, at Kemalex Plastics in Dandenong yesterday afternoon.

More than 50 workers at the factory, which makes plastic components for cars, have been on strike since April 27 in an enterprise-bargaining dispute over company attempts to make all new employees on the site independent contractors.

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