Business and labour join hands to protest against cheap poultry imports
In a rare show of solidarity between business and labour, management of some of the country’s biggest poultry producers are set to swap their offices for the streets and join the Food and Allied Workers Union’s (Fawu’s) three-city mass rolling action. In an unprecedented move, the management of Astral Foods, RCL Foods and Country Bird Holdings will also march with their workers. The producers say the industry is in distress as a result of cheap poultry from Europe and the US flooding South African shores. They say there are no mechanism in place to protect an industry in decline. Fawu is planning rolling mass action in Tshwane on Thursday and in Pietermaritzburg (Tuesday, November 29) and Cape Town (Wednesday, November 30). On Thursday, the union will be joined by the three companies’ management and staff when it marches on the EU Commission offices in Tshwane. In Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town the provincial legislature and Parliament will be the target destinations respectively. C...
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