Bloomberg News reports that strike-hit Ceres Fruit Growers, one of South Africa’s biggest packing and storage companies for apples and pears, is depleting stocks as a pay strike by employees curbs operations.
While the company has managed to meet orders and to export items in cold storage, this “will no longer be possible in due course as stocks are running low”, MD Francois Malan said on Thursday. He indicated that all aspects of the business were “now impacted upon by this strike.” Members of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) at the company have been on strike since the start of September. The union’s demands equate to a 9% increase and a R1,000 annual profit share per person, spokeswoman Dominique Martin indicated. The company is seemingly offering a pay rise of 8% without any benefits.
- Read this report at Business Report
- See too, Fawu rejects Ceres Fruit Growers management's wage offer, at EWN
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