OUR CAMPAIGNS

 

FAWU has, since its inception and as a progressive workers' organisation, always campaigned for the advancement of the working class in terms of improved working and socio-economic conditions. Our campaigns therefore include:

The demand for a decent living national minimum wage of R 4500;

• We support campaigns for better service delivery and meaningful engagement with government on policy decisions affecting our members, especially vulnerable workers  and the workers’ class in general.
• FAWU, as an affiliate of SAFTU, or in partnership with civil society formations, campaigns against lack of access to affordable, quality food and food security;
• It promotes and support programmes that will tackle the triple threat of poverty, unemployment and inequality in South Africa;
• FAWU actively opposes the dumping of poultry and other job-destroying products and actions from foreign countries;
• FAWU condemns illicit trade of food products and tobacco that undermines  legal industries and leads to job losses and  reduced government revenue;
• We reject inappropriate and harmful policies and laws e.g. sugar tax, tobacco law, Liquor Bill, Fisheries Rights Allocations as these will result in job losses;
• We oppose monetary policies obsessed with inflation targeting rather than economic growth and job creation;
• We fully support fiscal policy that lead to higher taxation for the rich in favour of higher government revenue to support social grants and other social services.