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Netwerk24 reports that striking workers at Robertson Winery (RW) have called on Danish consumers to boycott the company’s wines.
This is according to The Copenhagen Post, which is the only English language newspaper in Denmark, where the wines are sold in many supermarkets. More than 200 employees downed tools on Wednesday after wage negotiations deadlocked. On Thursday, the company obtained a court interdict preventing the strikers from intimidating temporary workers who had been brought in. On Friday, a charge was laid because the temporary workers were apparently again intimidated. Karel Swart of the Commercial, Stevedoring and Allied Workers' Union (CSAAWU) told the Danish pressure group Afrika Kontakt that the wages that workers were paid amounted to slave wages. The Copenhagen Post commented that Robertson Winery (RW) describes its wines as ““elegant” and “delicate”, but the smell in Denmark is one of “bad working conditions”. (Loosely translated from Afrikaans)
- Read this report by Nellie Brand-Jonker in full in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (limited access)
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