Aftermath
The common law damages claim was settled in April 1988, when the union paid the sum of $175,000 to Dollar Sweets as compensation for the losses it suffered as a result of the picket.
Peter Stauder sold Dollar Sweets Holding Limited in 1999, which is now called Snack Foods Limited.
Peter Costello described the case as "It came to be bracketed with the Mudginberri Abattoir case as a great victory against militant unionism."
Doug Cameron, the secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, with which the Federated Confectioners Association amalgamated, saw the dispute as a turning point. "It was when the social contract between workers, business and the government started to collapse," and "It became a cause celebre for the big end of town and lawyers started to realise they could make money ripping off the pay and conditions of workers."
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