SAB workers go on strike

[James]

Workers at SA Breweries (SAB) plants across the country embarked on a strike on Monday, the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) said.

"Our members started striking today [Monday] in the inland plants of SAB," general secretary Katishi Masemola said.

"Those in facilities on the coastal areas... will be joining the strike tomorrow [Tuesday]. By tomorrow we know that 2200, or so, workers will be on strike out of 3000."

...read more here: SAB workers go on strike

[HavocXphere]

The ANC needs to wake the fck up and do something about these strikes. BMW, Merc etc can build plants in other countries instead of ours...and they will if this keeps up.

[z1oc]

Sigh another strike.

[McT]

You'd think this would elicited more outraged posts than these few

[HavocXphere]

You'd think this would elicited more outraged posts than these few

The people sounding the alarm bells are largely immune to the effects of this. So Mercedes gets hit with a 2x inflation labour, costs increase, can't afford it & fires 2000 people. I won't be among them - I and most other readers of MyGaming are well above that. Not "above that" as in superior/better, no. Above that as in subject to different economic forces.

I'll be fine. The union backed workers won't be - not unless they realize that BMW/Mercedes/Siemens etc can move their operations to Chile fairly easily. All of those companies are run by a board full of Germans. Picture your typical educated German...how much patience does the guy have for a toy-toying guy with a panga on a different continent that is losing him money & causing his peers to question his judgement? Yeah not much.

Yes you got your 100% salary increase....pity the plant owners decided "fck this sht" and moved to China/Chile/Mexico/whatever. Suddenly R0 income. Oh noes! Evil labour unions tricked me.

Germans are very reasonable - if you field a viable logical argument. Field a "we demand" culture angle though and then>>>




Fools is indeed the correct term. Go look at labour negotiations in German. The labour unions sit at a board room table along with the employer and the local government & they find a solution. The local fools just intimidate & kill. Kill enough people & the SA employer agrees to unrealistic demands. Can't really afford it so fires half the work force a week later. And then ironically everyone blames the evil companies for being so evil as to fire people. One big circus...

[Dohc-WP]

Murph will be devastated when he reads this

[Ike_009]

From beer to BMW, yes I see the jump

I don't get this, its a 2.5% difference, is it really worth it. For every day you lose pay striking you will have to work another 40 to recover the money lost during the strike before you start making money off the increase.

What I want to see is a company agree to a unions demands and then present a list of employees and say well your demand was 5% over our budget, so here please choose 5% to loose their jobs next week.

[Cicero]

Strike season, employers plan for this in RSA. Even so it just pisses me off.

Unskilled workers striking REALLLY gets to me. Surely it should be a function of supply and demand in terms of salary. There is an abundance of unskilled, unemployed people in SA just hoping for a job. Meanwhile, these unionised unskilled labourers strike to get a minimum Rx thousand salary. This is turn forces employers to hire less people. Causing unemployment to go through the roof, and a select few to pocket a salary they aren't worth.

[Piesank]

I was at an EE roadshow hosted by the DoL earlier last month and they used SAB as an example of a company that actively seeks out EE and has cool EE structures in place.

Funny that the same company is now facing strike action.

[matt]

SAB! That might mean a beer shortage!