Food & Allied Workers Union, News Release, 30 April 2014 Ceres and De Doorns Farm Workers March on May Day for Better Working Conditions Almost 2000 workers from the Du Toits Group farms in Ceres and nearby De Doorns, led by FAWU General Secretary Katishi Masemola, will be marching from the Ceres Town Hall at 10h00 tomorrow to hand over a memorandum at the Du Toit farm's Head office tomorrow demanding permanent jobs for seasonal workers, a national bargaining forum and fair equity schemes that actually benefit workers, among other things. Most of these workers are members of FAWU and are unhappy because some of them have been working over thirty years as seasonal workers or and still the company don't see it fit to make them permanent employees. Out of 1500 workers at the Du Toit farm's Ceres plant, a mere 36 are permanent workers. These long-serving workers are loyal and hard- working and deserved to be made permanent workers by a national company like the Du Toit group, who have branches in the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, etc. Our members here also demand a national bargaining forum to centralise negotiations and negotiate the same benefits for all the workers under the Du Toit group seeing that most of the employees belong to FAWU. Workers are also aggrieved over equity schemes on farms which does not seem to benefit them. These employees say they have signed contracts years ago with the farm in which they were promised ownership but thus far, workers have only been given a mere R 200 bonus in December while managers still manage to get large amounts of these equity schemes. The Du Toit Group, is based in Ceres and is a leading producer of fruit and vegetable in South Africa and have farms in Franschoek, Langkloof (Eastern Cape), Upington, (Northern Cape), Malmesbury. For more information, please contact FAWU organiser, Xolisi Mngxunyeni at 082 769 5846. Head Office, Vuyisile Mini Centre, Steve Biko Drive, Cnr NY1 and NY 110, Guguletu, 7750 - PO Box 1234 Woodstock, 7915 Tel (021) 637 9040, Fax 086 508 6065 - E-mail: [email protected] -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
