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If you haven’t seen the Canberra Times, it has a story about the Rheem factory Scott Morrison visited yesterday to talk job creation – the factory is about to cut jobs.
But while Mr Morrison used the hot water heater manufacturer to promote his government’s record on job creation, ACM can reveal a cloud hangs over the more than 500-strong workforce at the Rydalmere site.
The union which represents manufacturing workers claims a third of the work undertaken at the Western Sydney factory is set to be shifted to Rheem’s site in Vietnam, putting more than 100 local jobs on the line.
Look, I think it was a press release. It was a wish, if you like, a promise. There’s not a lot of detail behind it, so I think what we would say is if you’re going to achieve this sort of goal, then you do need to have these things that we’re talking about. You do need to be investing in skills, you do need to be encouraging more people into the labour force and the third part of the equation is we do need to have stronger migration again. We have had the border shut for two years. We need to make sure that we’re now getting back to a more ambitious level of migration.
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