Business Report writes that several labour organisations are gearing up for solidarity action on Thursday against Clover companies and stores stocking the company’s products.
This comes as a protracted strike for wage increments and against retrenchments drags on into its tenth week. The SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), the Food and Allied Workers Union and the General Industrial Workers Union, along with the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), have resolved to pile pressure on Clover in a national and international day of action, which will include protesting at various embassies. The unions are protesting the closure of several factories and retrenchments. Clover closed two factories in the Western Cape in 2020 and intends to close four more factories in Gauteng, the Free State and in the North West. In 2021, 1,600 workers were retrenched and a further 822 will be retrenched by the end of February. “On January 25 (presumably 27 January) is the national and international day of action when Saftu is calling on the working class to occupy shops stocking Clover products, and to hold demonstrations at embassies. We are calling on all our members and all progressive working-class organisations to support this strike and to support the call to boycott Clover. Those who are able to attend the demonstrations are encouraged to do so in support of this just cause,” the unions indicated in a joint statement. On Saturday, the unions held a rally to mobilise Numsa, the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union and the Transport, Action, Retail and General Workers Union, at which a special working-class movement to look at solidarity actions and to elaborate a further programme was established.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Banele Ginindza at Business Report
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