ABC top stories - obscure union boss says blame Pauline if Cadbury loses Easter Egg sales over Halal Cert

Check the right hand column in our screen grab below - the 5th biggest story in the world in the ABC's editorial judgement is a report about a Tasmanian union boss who said:

"Any reduction in chocolate sales this Easter because of Senator Hanson's irresponsible comments directly threatens the jobs of our members and we call on the public to ignore her," Mr Short said. 

 

Tasmanian branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, John Short, said a reduction in Cadbury sales could affect the company's workers, including at its Claremont factory near Hobart.

"She [Pauline Hanson] talks about Australians, she talks about Australian jobs, but she's putting these jobs at risk.

"We want to make sure that people buy that product because it is Australian-made by Australians." 

"We have about 400 or 500 workers in Tasmania whose job rely on Cadbury," he said.

"She [Senator Hanson] should be putting her effort into making sure that jobs like Cadbury workers' jobs are safe and secure."

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Isn't that sort of logic equally applicable to the proposition that it's the Halal Certification that's costing sales?  Where's the ABC or the union on that?

 

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