You get the feeling that Katishi Masemola, secretary-general of the Food & Allied Workers Union (Fawu), would prefer not to be fighting this battle. But the circumstances around the Anheuser-Busch InBev bid for SABMiller have upped the ante for everyone. And so he has been dragged into territory that is far morefamiliar to executives who spend huge amounts of time fighting for the last million or so rand to which they are " entitled" in terms of the contracts they drew up.A week ago the megamerger looked like a done deal. But even as economic development minister Ebrahim Patel was announcing the details of all he had extracted from the merging parties, including attractive employment-related commitments and a R1bn investment fund, signs were emerging that things were not as tightly sewn up as Patel and the AB InBev team might have thought.In all its pre-deal preparation AB InBev had evidently not anticipated the employee members (tavern members may come later) of SAB’s Zenzele BEE d...
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