9newsMany Woolworths shelves are bare and stores are running low on stock as strikes force the closure of five distribution centres.
Distribution workers across the country are currently 10 days into a strike.
This has led to a pre-Christmas crisis for the supermarket giant, with most stores in Victoria and hundreds across Australia experiencing empty shelves and fridges.
Workers are demanding a pay rise above inflation. They want an immediate 25 per cent rise and a 30 per cent rise over the next two years.
They also want Woolworths to cut its productivity requirements.
“Until you finish and clock out and leave the site, you are tracked. The company knows exactly what you’re doing,” Giles said.”
“Essentially Woolworths wants every single worker to work 100 per cent performance 100 per cent of time,” Giles said.
Woolworths told 9News it was negotiating with the union and planned to reopen its Dandenong distribution centre in Victoria tomorrow.
The supermarket claims its staff want to get back into paid work before Christmas.
But striking workers said they would continue the action as long as they had to.
“Every worker should have the right to provide for their family,” Giles said.
