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Toyota began axing 350 jobs in Melbourne

Dozens of sacked Toyota workers who were marched from their workstations by security guards will fight to get their jobs back.

Toyota began axing 350 jobs at its Altona plant in Melbourne on Monday in response to weak export sales impacted by the high Australian dollar.

Most of the workers were unwillingly retrenched and 80 per cent of them plan to appeal their redundancies at Fair Work Australia, according to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

The union branded Toyota’s tactics of calling in security guards and escorting workers offsite to sack them as heavy-handed and disgusting, while workers said they had been treated like dogs and slaves…

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