Workers at a Pfizer manufacturing plant in Australia have gone on strike after they disagreed with the global pharmaceutical giant’s wage offer.
On the night of Nov. 2, dozens of United Workers Union (UWU) members who worked at Pfizer’s manufacturing plant in southeast Melbourne walked off the job in 24-hour industrial action to protest the company’s wage proposal, which the union considered unacceptable.
The workers later gathered at the manufacturing plant on the afternoon of Nov. 3 and called on U.S. company to approve a 17 percent wage increase over a three-year period.
However, according to the UWU, Pfizer, which posted a record US$25 billion ($39 billion) profit in 2021, offered a much lower total wage rise of 10 percent: a three percent increase in the first year of the agreement, four percent in the second year, and three percent in the final year….