{"id":15887,"date":"2017-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/coca-cola-employees-shocked-by-closure\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"coca-cola-employees-shocked-by-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/coca-cola-employees-shocked-by-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola employees shocked by closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Coca-Cola employees had heard rumours of big changes at the Adelaide plant, but were caught off guard on Wednesday when the business told them it would close its entire Adelaide operation in 2019.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI thought it might be a few lines shutting down, but not the whole plant,\u201d an employee said after the morning meeting. He said co-workers had been \u201csurprised\u201d and the atmosphere at the meeting was \u201cquiet and very disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were rumours getting around that there was going to be big changes,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew something was going on, you can tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he said the news came as a \u201cshock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/308906171&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING Coca Cola bombshell statement to ASX workers being told NOW. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsAdelaide\">@7NewsAdelaide<\/a> 6PM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPFvth3OsX\">pic.twitter.com\/yPFvth3OsX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Smithson (@mikesmithson7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikesmithson7\/status\/834155397795639296\">February 21, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p>Coca-Cola revealed&nbsp;jobs would be lost &#8212; up to 180 &#8212;&nbsp;when it packs up its Adelaide operation in 2019 to consolidate interstate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people have got financial issues to sort out now. Me, I\u2019m nearly 58 so it\u2019s going to be pretty hard for me to find employment now at my age because they go for the younger people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a couple there that have been there for just a month and maybe others for a year, so their package is going to basically be bugger all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a few older ones too that aren\u2019t retiring age &#8212; 58, 60. What are they going to do? 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