15 Jul 2011If the current extensive strike in the country’s fuel processing sector isn’t resolved soon, products such as milk, fresh fruit and vegetables, will become scarce as farmers and their produce transporters run out of fuel to get these products to markets. Latest reports show that many fuel stations, particularly in Gauteng, were already running dry.
Demands, which included a 13% wage increase, a R6 000 minimum wage, a ban on labour brokers, improved maternity-leave benefits, fewer hours in the working week, and a two-year wage agreement, were put forward by workers from the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU), the South African Chemical Workers Union (SACWU), the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), and more recently, Solidarity.
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