An Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's (AMWU) boycott on Unilever's Streets ice-creams has been called off after workers forged a new collective agreement.
AMWU had called on the public to boycott the Streets ice cream brand late last month in a $250,000 “Streets Free Summer” campaign which has appeared on social and traditional media.
Workers at the Streets ice-cream plant in Minto, Sydney came to a collective agreement for a five percent wage increase over three years, according to The Huffington Post.
The agreement also sees workers maintain their current working conditions and rosters and have 39 new flexible part-time jobs added to the company.
The AMWU boycott was initiated in response to the plans of the Unilever-owned Streets facility in Minto NSW to terminate the current enterprise agreement of the 140 workers at the plant.
Unilever, which claimed the current agreement was no longer sustainable for the plant, was reportedly seeking to slash workers pay by up to 46 per cent, as well as cut overtime penalties and their redundancy entitlements, according to the AMWU.
