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1. Sugar tax and job losses
(News)
... Cosatu, while conceding the unhealthy effects of sugary drinks, has also raised its concern about job losses. Nedlac excludes the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu), which represents most of the workers ...
Created on 15 Aug 2017
2. Chicken industry stakeholders pledge over dumping
(News)
... of a pledge between FairPlay, the SA Poultry Association, the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) and RCL Foods in Durban. Pitman said it was painful bidding farewell to 1,350 workers retrenched at the ...
Created on 9 May 2017
3. New labour federation launch
(News)
... place. Katishi Masemola, general secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu), commented: "On the state of readiness it was the draft constitution and many of the delegates indicated they are ...
Created on 6 Feb 2017
4. Bleak future for axed Rainbow Chicken workers
(News)
... workers who stood to lose their jobs and that an extensive social plan was being developed for the retrenchments through consultation. The Food and Allied Workers Union’s (Fawu’s) August Mbhele said the ...
Created on 30 Jan 2017
5. Poultry duty on EU ‘could decimate jobs in SA’
(News)
... Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has also criticised the Department of Trade and Industry over the new safeguard duty and says it is not enough to stop thousands of workers in the industry from losing ...
Created on 12 Jan 2017
6. Rainbow Chickens selling 15 farms and laying-off workers
(News)
... out of work. Country Bird (Free State and North West) is retrenching 1,500 workers. Katishi Masemola of the Food and Allied Workers’ Union (Fawu) warned that if the government did not step in to hikes ...
Created on 9 Jan 2017
7. Fawu wage strikers down tools on Friday
(News)
... Allied Workers Union (Fawu), handed over a memorandum that contained several demands. These included a 9% wage increment, a R400 monthly housing subsidy (up from R3250), R400 monthly transport (up from ...
Created on 15 Nov 2016
8. Jobs blood bath
(News)
Jobs blood bath in the poultry industry has gathered pace, with almost 800 jobs set to be lost at RCL Foods’ plant and farms in KwaZulu-Natal. Japhta Malinga of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) ...
Created on 15 Nov 2016
9. Proposed sugar tax could cost up to 70,000 jobs
(News)
... and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) said it would have a problem with the proposed tax if it resulted in the volume of job losses the industry predicted. The deadline for public comments on the policy paper ...
Created on 18 Aug 2016
10. BE CAREFUL WHEN ASSESSING WHO TO RETRENCH
(Editor's Pick)
... of this criterion was fair is very complex. This has caused many an employer to lose in court.   For example, in the case of FAWU vs SA Breweries Ltd (Contemporary Labour Law Vol 14 No. 2 September ...
Created on 13 Jul 2016
11. Grain processors avert strike
(News)
SA's biggest grain processing and logistics companies and the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) representing workers have reached a wage agreement, averting a strike. The pact, signed on Thursday, ...
Created on 10 Jun 2016
12. Fawu members to down tools on Friday
(News)
The Food and Allied Workers' Union (Fawu), which represents some 85 000 workers across various food sectors, is set to go out on strike in the grain industry. In a statement, the union said workers were ...
Created on 9 Jun 2016
13. Fawu fights hard for BEE payout
(News)
Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is determined to drag out the completion of the merger between Anheuser Busch InBev (AB InBev) and SABMiller in a bid to secure benefits for its members. Katishi ...
Created on 11 May 2016
14. Unions return to core focus of representing workers
(News)
... the end of last year. The Food and Allied Workers Union’s (Fawu’s) Katishi Masemola said the drought has hit the agricultural sector hard. Former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says union leaders ...
Created on 14 Mar 2016
15. PRESIDING OFFICERS MUST BE UNBIASED
(Editor's Pick)
... the matter despite having been the one who caught the employee breaking the rule. In the case of FAWU obo Sotyatu vs JH group Retail Trust (2001, 8 BALR 864) the arbitrator found that the manager who chaired ...
Created on 25 Feb 2016
16. PRESIDING OFFICERS MUST BE UNBIASED
(Legal 2)
... the matter despite having been the one who caught the employee breaking the rule. In the case of FAWU obo Sotyatu vs JH group Retail Trust (2001, 8 BALR 864) the arbitrator found that the manager who chaired ...
Created on 25 Feb 2016
17. Mpumalanga banana producer hit by Fawu strike action
(News)
... Workers Union (Fawu), it will continue while negotiations go on in connection with worker rights, particularly in relation to allowing employees to exercise their rights to join labor unions. According ...
Created on 11 Nov 2015
18. Unions move to block beer merger between SABMiller and InBev
(News)
... fierce cost-cutting. The Food and Allied Workers’ Union (Fawu) said it would oppose the merger, as did labour federation Cosatu. It said the government, regulators and pension funds should not agree ...
Created on 21 Oct 2015
19. Fawu to oppose SABMiller, ABInBev merger deal
(News)
SABC News reports that Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) general secretary Katishi Masemola says the union is not in favour of the SABMiller-AbInBev deal and will make submissions for the transaction ...
Created on 15 Oct 2015
20. Striking Fawu members lower wage demand at Ceres Fruit Growers to 8%
(News)
Business Report writes that the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has dropped wage demand at Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG) from 12.5% to 8% in a bid to end the four-week strike that has hit the Western ...
Created on 7 Oct 2015