Imogen Vollenhoven
The Food and Allied Workers Union has welcomed the formal inquiry into the state of competition in the poultry industry.
The Competition Commission announced the inquiry on Friday. Fawu Deputy Secretary Moleko Phakedi said cheap chicken imports have a negative impact on the local poultry industry, in the form of thousands of job losses.
Phakedi said that they believe that the stricter rules around imports for poultry from Brazil
“FAWU has always remained and are of the same belief that the benefit of the retention of jobs and ensuring growth in the industry has shown a slight decrease in the chicken price as argued by AMIE which represents the importers, who are in fact of a view opposite to the price hike or tariff hike increases,” added Phakedi.
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