Bottle jobs go as beer, wine sales fall

A drop in beer and wine sales across Australia has cost 70 Melbourne workers their jobs at a glass bottle manufacturer. O-I Australia will shed the positions as it closes one of three furnaces at its Spotswood factory in March, with the job losses to occur by June. Australian Workers Union Victorian secretary Cesar Melhem said the Spotswood factory employed 320 people and the jobs to go included 50 glass manufacturing workers, with the rest coming from trade and engineering positions, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.