FAWU To March To Unilever Head Offic

 Media Statement - 14 June 2022

 

The Food & Allied Workers’ Union (FAWU) will march to Unilever’s head office in Umhlanga in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province on Wednesday 15 June 2022 to hand over a memorandum of strike demands to the company. We believe a multinational such as Unilever can accede to workers’ reasonable demands for better conditions and a decent wage increase, especially given the challenging economic environment the working class finds itself in.

 

About 600 FAWU members embarked on industrial action at the Indonsa plant in Umhlanga in the Kwa-Zulu Natal on 27 May 2022 following failed wage talks with the employer under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.  Our members demanded a 12 percent wage increase in February this year, an increase in the staff quarterly vouchers, an increase in sick leave 15 days per annum and for the implementation date to be backdated to April 1 2022.

 

The company withdrew its wage proposal on 30 May 2022 after it was rejected by workers on the basis that it was the very same proposal the company had made when the parties reached a deadlock.  The company’s latest wage proposal offer stood at a deplorable 5,8 percent while the union demanded a 9,5 percent wage increase. FAWU believes that production is heavily affected.

 

Unilever, a global consumer goods company sells well-known goods like Hellmans, Knorr and various other food and beauty products.

 

The march departs from 77 Riverhorse Road at 11h00 on 15 June 2022 and the memorandum handover will take place around 12h00 at 15 Nollsworth Crescent, Nollsworth, Umhlanga, Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Enquiries: KZN Provincial Secretary Siphiwe Dlomo (082 492 5100) or alternatively FAWU Deputy General Secretary Vuka Chonco (082 499 5854). Released by FAWU media officer Dominique Martin – 082 498 5631