Workers feel squeeze as sauce plant shuts
21.05.12
"It's a multinational company. They're going to put their interests first before local interests," he said.
"In the end, when they turned up here they had an American, Kiwi and an Englishman telling us they were shutting - no Aussies.
"They don't really have any hold here with us.
"You've just got to try and move on."
Mr McDonnell hopes to find work interstate in the mines.
"If you want something a bit more permanent you've got to go elsewhere."
Mr McDonnell, like other workers and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), hopes the Goulburn Valley Food Cooperative will buy Heinz's plant.
"This place makes a profit, Heinz knows that. They've got the best tomatoes in the world here."
Heinz production worker and AMWU delegate Ken Covington said it was the end of an era.
"There's people here who've been here since day one, and they're the ones really feeling the closure," he said.
Source: NEWS.com.au