16 December 2016
Strike enters day 3 at advertorial company Brand Developers
Distribution centre workers at Brand Developers TV Shop are entering their third day of strike action at the popular
advertorial company with one worker warning Christmas deliveries may not reach customers unless company owner Paul Meier
returns to the negotiating table with a pay offer better than the minimum wage.
“We’re into day three now which means Christmas deliveries are well behind. The longer Meier leaves this the longer
customers are going to have to wait,” said a distribution centre worker who did not wish to be named for fear of
management reprisals.
Brand Developers TV Shop supplies popular advertorial brands like the Transforma ladder, Bambillo pillow and Thin Lizzy
makeup.
“We’ve been in negotiations for a year and a half and Meier is still withholding a fair pay rise for the workforce. The
people here just want a Christmas where they don’t have to budget on the minimum wage,” said FIRST Union organiser Kate
Davis.
“How close do we have to get to Christmas before Meier does the decent thing and settles an agreement with fair pay?”
“Meier expects distribution centre workers and the call centre workers to survive on little more than the minimum wage.
Many of our members have gone years without a pay rise. People here are so fed up that after the distribution centre
workers started their strike yesterday morning that the call centre workers walked off the job in solidarity too. The
company was paralysed for the day.”
“As the owner Meier is creaming it, but the people who do the work of selling and moving the company brands are
struggling to make ends meet.”
ENDS