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Holden to axe 270 jobs at Adelaide factory

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About 270 Holden workers in Adelaide will lose their jobs ahead of the official shutdown of the company’s Elizabeth factory in 2017.

Workers were informed the 270 jobs will be shed from Holden this evening, with voluntary redundancies to be offered in the first instance.

Holden’s director of communications Sean Poppit yesterday said the redundancies followed from a drop in production from 290 cars a day to 240 as of May 25.

He attributed the drop in production to decreasing demand for domestically made cars.

The decision also was in line with the company’s decision to wind down their production of cars in Australia on a sliding scale to “ensure an orderly transition”, he said.

He said if the company did not get enough volunteers, workers would be approached.

The redundancies follow warnings by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union in November that workers who were able to secure full-time employment elsewhere should do so immediately.

Workers who voluntarily choose to leave the company ahead of the Elizabeth factory’s closure in 2017 would receive a reduced payout, state secretary John Camillo said at the time.

Despite this, Mr Camillo said an offer of full-time employment should be taken.

80 per cent of Holden workers have agreed to a final workplace agreement package for an average redundancy payout of $85,000.

The package is equal to four weeks pay for every year of service, plus four weeks severance pay.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/holden-to-axe-270-jobs-at-adelaide-factory/story-e6frg6nf-1227312491553
 
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80 per cent of Holden workers have agreed to a final workplace agreement package for an average redundancy payout of $85,000.

The package is equal to four weeks pay for every year of service, plus four weeks severance pay.
$85K? Only four weeks pay for every year of service? It used to be six weeks. They got shafted by GM.

Opel workers last year received on average €125K (AU $170K), plus 6 months job search support (including free lease car and heavily discounted car purchase option) and other benefits.
 
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Glad i'm not the only one who thinks they got shafted. Goes to show how useless our apparent tough Unions are in negotitating good deals for employees and yet during the GFC these men and women took massive hits just to keep the plant running to keep the almighty GM happy and taking our government money. Maybe GM should have just been let to go bankrupt, probably would have been better for divisions like Holden and Opel in the long term
 
#8 ·
Because that's what was in their contracts.

To secure good workforce Holden used to offer industry average wages/salaries, and relatively generous benefits. I say relatively, because these benefits were much less than GM EU benefits or even some US GM benefits (eg. profit sharing, dirt cheap lease cars, etc).
 
#10 ·
GM have very short corporate memory due to the revolving door policy of the past decade. They sack thousands of Australian staff and then they act surprised why Company Vehicle Operations are not registering many cars. They fire local suppliers, and then they wonder why their ex-suppliers are not buying Holdens.

In 12-18 months time Holden will compete for number 7 sales charts position with Ford and VW.
 
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