New photo Humans replaced by $20 million machines at Australian Cadbury chocolate factory

Robots are replacing human workers at a Cadbury chocolate factory because parent company Mondelez is buying $20million machines to wrap Flake and Twirl bars more efficiently.

Workers at the Tasmanian plant do not yet know who will be made redundant so they are reluctant to talk to media about how they feel in case they are the ones to go.

The staff were told on Thursday evening about the impending job cuts, and the company has not ruled out forced redundancies. 

State Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union John Short said a lot of the workers had been employed at Cadbury for many years.

'Older workers in particular will find it difficult to find other jobs,' he said in an emailed statement. 

The union believes international food giant Mondelez is seeking to casualise the workforce. 

 'There have been generations of families who have worked at the Claremont factory but with the ongoing shift to a more casualised, insecure workforce, the well-paid, secure jobs may not be there for future generations.'   

The Cadbury family bought the land for the plant in Claremont, Tasmania in 1920, with a view to making a 'garden' factory with its first chocolates sold in 1922.

$20 million machines to wrap Flake and Twirl bars are replacing 40 workers at Tasmania's Cadbury factory. Union bosses think company owner Mondelez wants to casualise jobs

The 40 jobs to be axed form 10 per cent of the workforce.

The company has cut 170 jobs since 2015. 

The company has invested $75 million over 18 months to upgrade automation at the plant and to train staff.

Factory site manager Ross Coleman said certain product lines such as Flake and Twirl needed to be produced more efficiently for Cadbury's to compete globally.

A worker at a Cadbury production line from a different factory. The 40 jobs to be axed from Tasmania's Claremont plant represent 10 per cent of the workforce there

He told the ABC that the company was being challenged by the distant location, low domestic growth and the rising cost of freight. 

Independent MP for Denisone Andrew Wilkie said the Cadbury factory was a bedrock of the local community, and the loss of 40 jobs would hurt.

'That's not just a number,' Mr Wilkie said.

'That's 40 workers, all of whom have bills to pay, many of whom have families and so on to care for. There's a real human side to this and it's very disappointing.

The Cadbury factory in Claremont, Tasmania, where the new machines will replace workers

 

  

 

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