SACCAWU will be embarking on marches and pickets to join Cosatu in its call for Decent Work for all workers in the country. This call is particularly pertinent to the retail, hospitality and food processing sectors. In these sectors we see various employers who pay workers less than the minimum wage. The sector is well known for its heightened job insecurity, casualisation, retrenchments, perpetual loss of jobs through restructuring, trade union bashing, and many more.
SACCAWU will be embarking on marches and pickets as follows:
Polokwane
A march to be held from SABC Radio Park to Shoprite in Schoeman Street.
Tshwane
Pickets to be held @ Pick n Pay in Madiba Street
Johannesburg
A march to be held from George Lilly Park to Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton
Western Cape
A march to be held from Hanover Street next to CPUT to Provincial Legislature and to National Parliament
Eastern Cape
A march to be held from North End Street to the Department of Employment and Labour
Mpumalanga
A march to be held from Strydomblock to SONOMA Investment at KOMATIPOORT
Bloemfontein
A march from Batho Police Station to TFS Wholesalers in Bloemfontein at OR Tambo Street
North West (Klerksdorp)
A picket to be held at Checkers Hype at OR Tambo Road
For more information please call:
Sithembele Tshwete
South African Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU)
(011) 403 8333
073 956 3108 or 082 336 5363
Sithembele.media@saccawu.org.za