A UNION has threatened to boycott Woolworths if it does not help workers and sub-contractors owed money following the collapse of a company building a supermarket in Sydney's north.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) says more than $5 million is owed for work at the newest Woolworths in Balgowlah following the collapse of Southern Cross Constructions in October.
The union's NSW Secretary Brian Parker said on Friday that Woolworths had a moral obligation to help workers and sub-contractors on the project which had been won for $4 million less than the next tenderer.
That $4 million saving had come out of the pockets of the workers and sub-contractors, he said.
"Six weeks out from Christmas we're looking at these companies going broke, losing their houses, their properties, and workers put on the dole queue and looking at a very bleak Christmas," Mr Parker told reporters.
Protesters targeted Woolworths on Sydney's George Street on Friday and Mr Parker said protests would continue to target the supermarket giant until it came to the table to reach an agreement.
He said Woolworths had made a $1.8 billion profit in the last financial year but wouldn't even sit down to discuss the $4 million to $5 million needed to resolve the issue.
"We haven't yet called upon our members to boycott Woolworths.
"But in the next seven days if we haven't got a result on this, we'll be calling on not only our members but everybody across the trade union movement to not go and shop at Woolworths," Mr Parker said.
"We'll see where their profits sit after that."
Mr Parker said Bunnings, whose store in Balgowlah was also caught up in the Southern Cross collapse, had made good the money owed to workers and Woolworths should do the same.
Woolworths has been contacted for comment.
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