Other Names
Current Operation
- Operational as at 13.11.2013
- Establishment #06882
- Export accredited abattoir processing Beef, Sheep, Goat and Offal.2
Location
- Brooklyn is located 14km from Melbourne’s CBD1
Hema Maps – Australia Truckies atlas.
Owner
- JBS Australia1
- Abattoirs owned by JBS in Tasmania
- Devonport abattoir (Tas) (2008) – another multi species abattoir.
- Longford (Tas)
- King Island abattoir (Tas) (2008) – closed in 2012.
- Abattoirs owned by JBS Queensland.
- Townsville (QLD)
- Rockhampton (QLD)
- Dinmore abattoir (QLD)
- Riverview (QLD)
- Toowoomba (QLD) – more commonly known as Beef City
- Abattoirs owned by JBS in Victoria
- Brooklyn (Vic)
- Cobram (Vic)
- Abattoirs owned by JBS in New South Wales
- Yanco (NSW)
- Abattoirs owned by JBS in South Australia
Operation
- Establishment #6881
- Beef – grass and grain fed1
- lamb, hogget, mutton & veal1
- Employees – 6881
- Processes 5,200 daily1
- Largest multis species processing facility in southern hemisphere1
History
2001
- June. Fire had gutted the plant3
2002
- March. SBA foods sell to Tasman Group Services, new trading name Belandra Pty Ltd.3
- Brooklyn export abattoir operated in conjunction with Westgate coolstores
- $25M deal included purchase with Longord abattoir (Tas) and King Island abattoir (Tas) mothballed Altona meatworks in Melbourne west and 8,000 head Yambinya feedlot at Wakool near Deniliquin NSW.3
- Brooklyn facility still in reasonable condition, efforts to re-open had failed but SBA has spent $10M on the beef slaughter chain, chiller and boning facilities in the past 4 years.3
2005
- June. Trade halted on export of meat to Malaysia over doubts concerning halal status of Australian meat6
2006
- January. Market access to Malaysia suspended7
- Malaysians concerned that pneumatic stunning and use of the thoracic stick (Used to speed up bleeding of carcase) were being used to speed killing process.7
- April. Brooklyn receives Halal approval from Malaysian Islamic Development department.6
- AQIS allow milder level of eclectrical stunning and thoracic stick at least 2 minutes after slaughter7
- Grantham abattoir (QLD) and Wodonga abattoir (Vic) also gained approval7
- Kilcoy abattoir (QLD), Longford abattoir (Tas) failed the accreditation tests.7
2008
- JBS buy Tasman group Longford abattoir (Tas) , King Island abattoir (Tas) and Devonport abattoir (Tas) and three plants in Victoria, 1,800 workers at the six plants.4
2010
- December. JBS Swift locked out cold storage workers under the Labor workplace relations regulations.4
- Workers had rejected a proposed new enterprise agreement4
- JBS offered wage adjustment 2% a year over 2 years4
- Shifts increase from 8 hrs to between 9.5-12.6hrs affecting workers overtime and weekend penalty rates4
- Union claim its a real wage cut given rate of inflation
- Mostly immigrant workers striking granted a one-of payment of $250 and not normal wage on strike time, payable when picket disbanded.4
- Union shut down picket on December 22 to revive on January 44
- Work had continued at the plant with workers flown in from QLD and others sourced from a labour hire agency4
2012
- JBS Australia split into two operating entities to make Northern and Southern regions in relation to abattoirs and feedlots within those areas8.
- South – Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania8
- North – NSW and QLD.8
2013
- February. Received carbon abatement grant $212,512 towards equipment replacement worth $425,0005
- replace boiler network with a higher efficency boiler and heat exchanger.5
- Expect to reduce carbon emissions by 35%, saving $60,000 in energy costs per year5
2014
- July. JBS Australia across all facilities in operation kills daily8
- 8,500 cattle,8
- 24,000 smalls – which includes lambs8
- Employs more than 8,000 people8
Sources
- ‘Our Plants – Brooklyn’ http://www.jbsswift.com.au Accessed 13.11.2013
- Aus meat List 28.02.2014
- ‘SBA foods sells to Tasman groups services’ Stock and Land. 19.03.2002
- ‘Australia: Union shuts down picket of locked out meatworkers’ http://www.wsws.org 28.12.10
- ‘Teys, T & R in latest round of carbon abatement grants’ Beef Central 18.02.13
- Headlines for week ending 21.04.06 http://www.profarmer.com.au.
- ‘Abattoirs supply Malaysia again’ Farm Weekly, 19.04.2006
- ‘The next Swift shift’ The Weekly Times. 30.07.2014
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