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Engineering News reports that trade union Solidarity has set 30 March as the launch date for a job-saving campaign to conceive and implement purposeful plans to help “save” certain industries that are struggling to remain viable.
“This campaign will focus specifically on the steel, manufacturing and engineering industries to address the challenges this industry and related industries face,” said Solidarity metal and engineering deputy general secretary Marius Croucamp on Monday. Overall, the steel industry in SA was experiencing economic hardship owing to a drastic slowdown in the growth of the local economy, cost pressure in the manufacturing sector and excessively high steel imports, Croucamp indicated. Solidarity aims to create public awareness of the challenges facing the local industry, lobby public support and foster alignment between the primary and downstream industry.
- Read this report in full at Engineering News
- Read Solidarity’s press statement in this regard at Solidarity online
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