City Press reports that about 200 employees of Tiger Beverages, which manufactures drinks such as Energade, Oros and Hall’s, marched to Tiger Brands’ head office in Bryanston on Friday.  

The group, under the banner of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu), handed over a memorandum that contained several demands.  These included a 9% wage increment, a R400 monthly housing subsidy (up from R3250), R400 monthly transport (up from R325) and extended to early morning shift workers and the permanent employment of 15 annually “recycled” casual workers.  Tiger Beverages is a subsidiary of Tiger Brands and has been dealing with the strike action by about 500 members of Fawu since 13 October.  The union is threatening a 7000-workers strong solidarity strike.

• Read this report by Avantika Seeth in full at City Press

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