00:00Dennis Coy has lived in Strathmerton for 70 years.
00:07It's devastating, really. Yes, devastating.
00:12He says Bega's dairy processing plant has been crucial to the community for as long as he can remember.
00:18The factory's always been, well it's actually made Strathmerton
00:21because I think nearly every person here was working there at one stage of their life.
00:26The factory dominates the landscape and the local economy.
00:30There's only 1,100 people that live in Strathmerton and 340 people that work at the factory.
00:36This is going to decimate this community.
00:38Workers say they were blindsided yesterday when a notice to the Australian Stock Exchange
00:43detailed the company's plans to sack 300 workers
00:47and consolidate its cheese processing operation at its Bega factory.
00:51The company says the two plants make the same products
00:54and neither was running to capacity.
00:57They were running well below full operation.
00:59So the Strathmerton site was below 50%.
01:03The Bega group says it will look to redeploy staff where it can,
01:07either to its plant at Bega or to its other operations in Victoria.
01:12But workers in Strathmerton say many local families won't want to move.
01:17That is going to be huge for them.
01:19Now what do they do?
01:20Where do they go?
01:21How are they going to manage?
01:23The Strathmerton Bulldogs have relied on workers from the plant
01:26to pull on the red, white and blue for decades.
01:29Another sponsor to shut down in the local area.
01:33Whether we're going to see any money out of the Bega Valley
01:36back to little old Strathi footy club remains to be seen,
01:39but I'd be very surprised.
01:41I'd like to think that we can do something to keep the town going.
01:46A town's fighting spirit being put firmly to the test.
01:50What happens when they come from the farm?
01:51Who would have been a link of the Bega Valley back and Old South Miami
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