Limusa members strike at Toyota supplier
The union is fighting for recognition at all Toyota facilities and affiliates, but the company says Limusa has failed to meet the 30% worker representation threshold
A strike by workers affiliated to the Liberated Metalworkers Union of SA (Limusa) at Toyota Tsusho Africa, a Toyota supplier in Durban, entered its fifth day on Thursday. Workers in Limusa colours were also said to be picketing outside Toyota SA’s main plant in the Isiphingo industrial area, south of Durban, but the company denied this. Toyota Tsusho Africa is a subsidiary of Japanese company Toyota Tsusho Corporation, which is an associate of Toyota SA parent Toyota Motor Corporation. The union, which broke away from the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), is fighting for recognition at all Toyota facilities and affiliated enterprises. But the company says that the union has failed to meet the 30% worker representation threshold required for recognition to take effect, and that a Commission for Conciliation, Medication and Arbitration (CCMA) arbitration award made in September confirmed its stance. Limusa’s Mawonga Madolo disputed that the CCMA had rejected the union’s pl...
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