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Melissa Meehan

The 50 million reasons Woolies wants blockade to end

Warehouse workers have been on strike against Woolworths for 13 days. (Melissa Meehan/AAP PHOTOS)

Supermarket giant Woolworths says it has taken a $50 million hit because of a strike, as it pleads with the Fair Work Commission to ban employees blocking its distribution centres

A picket line by United Workers Union members entered its 13th day outside a distribution centre in suburban Melbourne and three other sites, leaving many shelves bare as workers seek better conditions and pay.

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