By Ofentse Mokae
11 July 2009
About 270 workers employed by Expo-Frut/UNIVEG in Piketberg and members of FAWU are on a protected strike since 24 June 2009 the union says
Workers are unhappy and frustrated over the fact that management continues to undermine collective agreements between the two parties.
“Workers are united in their demands to have the General Manager removed as he does not seem to be interested in building good relationships between the two parties the union says in a statement’’ Provincial Secretary Lookington Ndongeni said.
The secretary says their members believed that the general manager is hell-bent on dismissing workers.
They have signed a petition to this effect and have gone on strike based on the matter of mutual interest.
Meanwhile workers say that shop stewards are being victimised, with some receiving final written warnings and there are constant attempts at union bashing.
Some workers claimed that management has even asked them to resign from the union. The matter of the dismissals of shop stewards, including the chairperson of the Western Cape has been submitted to the CCMA.
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