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BL Premium reports that workers at SA’s largest cheese factory say they will embark on protest action if Clover sticks to its plans to move its Lichtenburg factory from North West to KwaZulu-Natal.
The company has cited poor service delivery by the municipality as the main reason for relocating from the province. The General Industrial Workers Union of SA (Giwusa), which represents more than half the 226 workforce at the factory, met Clover’s management on Monday to raise concerns over possible job losses related to the relocation process. “The management told us that they are relocating the factory because they are consolidating their operations across the country. They said their factory in Parow, Cape Town, will be relocated to Port Elizabeth. They said some operations in Gauteng will be integrated,” Giwusa’s Mametlwe Sebei said on Tuesday. Sebei reported that Clover had offered to help workers to relocate to Queensburgh in Durban, “but a lot of workers won’t be able to take up that offer”. Even if they did, their monthly wages of about R6,500 would not be enough because “it is more expensive to live in Durban than in Rustenburg”. The factory’s last month of operation will apparently be October 2022. Sebei said: “We are mobilising our members and communities around this campaign. We will occupy that factory and call on government to assist those workers by taking over the factory and continue with production.” He stressed that “more elaborate plans” would be announced in due course.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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