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South Africa: Unions to Press On With Food Protests
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Cape Argus (Cape Town)
16 July 2008
Posted to the web 16 July 2008
Moses Mdewu Mackay
Trade unions are to protest outside company gates as part of their campaign against soaring food and petrol prices and Eskom's electricity hikes.
Labour federation Cosatu kickstarted the campaign with a march to parliament where representatives handed over a memorandum in support of their demands.
Union leaders lashed out at ANC politicians, warning that they were alienating themselves from voters ahead of 2009's elections.
Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said the strike would continue until the crisis was resolved.
"Unions and workers will continue with protest action," he said.
Cosatu was also planning mass action strike on August 6.
Clement Herandien, provincial organiser of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), said about 28 workers at Engen garage in Springbok, Northern Cape, would go on strike on Wednesday because the company wanted to retrench some workers because of soaring petrol prices and lower profits.
Numsa would convene a meeting with its members to discuss the strike next month and the way forward.
"We are supporting Cosatu in its call for a national strike. We will mobilise our members and other workers to ensure that it (strike) is a success," he said.
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At the march Ehrenreich said many politicians were lost to the leafy suburbs and were aloof from the workers' plight.
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