Monday, January 25, 2010


INTERNATIONAL LABOUR-SOUTH AFRICA:
STAND WITH SOUTH AFRICAN SAB MILLER'S WORKERS:
The following appeal for online solidarity is from the international union federation the IUF. Since before Christmas workers represented by the Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) have been on strike against the SAB Miller's ABI division. They are asking you to help pressure the company to deal fairly with its workers. Here's the appeal.
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FAWU on Strike at SAB Miller South African Soft Drinks:
Three thousand members of South Africa's FAWU have been on strike at SAB Miller's ABI Soft Drinks Division since December 22. The union is demanding better wages, fair overtime payment for Saturday work and an end to the further use of labour brokers and the "Driver-Owner Schemes" which convert lorry drivers into "independent" owner operators and their crews into casual workers without working conditions or job security. The company has chosen confrontation over negotiation, preferring allegations of worker violence to constructive negotiations. The union has won strong support for their struggle inside South Africa - and is now asking for international solidarity. You can support FAWU's fight for decent conditions and their demand for an end to the extension of precarious work.
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THE LETTER
Please go to this link to send the following message to ABI management.
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To:
Graham Mackay, CEO, SAB plc, UK
To:
Norman Joseph Adami, Chairman and Managing Director, SAB Ltd
To:
Steve Bluen, Human resources director SAB Ltd, South Africa
To:
John Ustas, Managing Director, ABI, South Africa
To:
Ed Potter, Director of global labor relations, TCCC,
Dear Mr Mckay, Mr Adami, Mr Bluen, Mr Ustas,
I am writing to you to express my concern about the uncompromising position of ABI management in the ongoing industrial dispute with FAWU. The workers who are expected to work for the company during the upcoming World Cup with full motivation deserve a fair wage increase, fair regulation of work schedules, and a stop to precarious work conditions for transport crews as expressed in FAWU's demands.

The company should immediately sit down and negotiate a fair agreement with FAWU based on the union's just demands, rather than blackmailing the union and its members with unsubstantiated allegations of violence which cover the refusal to bargain in good faith.
Sincerely yours,

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