Sunday Independent reports that members of the Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers’ Union (Csaawu) are now entering their twelfth week of a strike at Robertson Winery that seeks to address wages and working conditions.  

The union’s Karel Swart indicated on Saturday that they were still pushing for a minimum salary increase to R8,500.  He claimed that many of the 227 workers on strike earned R2,900 a month at the winery, which apparently represents 30 farms in Robertson and employs 303 people.  According to the winery, the union and its members are “not acting in good faith”.  Reinette Jordaan, HR manager at the winery, said they were willing to pay workers an extra R400 a month, but the offer had been rejected by workers outright.

• Read this report by Yazeed Kamaldien in full at Sunday Independent

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