FAWU challenges Labour Brokers

Katishi Masemola - General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union or FAWU joined us on the line to talk about their call on Adcorp and other labour brokers to produce evidence of factories and other workplaces they have created. In line with Cosatu’s call for the banning of labour brokers, the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) is calling on Adcorp, Kelly, Workforce and other labour brokers to produce evidence of factories, warehouses, retail centres, fast-food outlets, fishing vessels, forestry plantations, farming operations and other workplaces they have created as green-field investments creating such jobs and/or acquisitions of such companies in retaining such jobs. This he said has emerged after labour brokers continue to argue that this so-called sector, which is ‘purportedly’ worth R20 billion, is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs yet Fawu knows that these jobs exist in Coca Cola bottling companies, Shoprite-Checkers, Protea hotels, Keursbosch Kloof farms, Premier fishing vessels and so on. Fawu is aware that these so-called labour broker-supplied workers work side-by-side with permanent workers on the payroll of SAB Ltd and other companies yet they earn salaries/monthly wages that are third to two-thirds in value to those earned by permanent employees without retirement funds and other benefits in many cases. For further information you can contact FAWU on (021) 637 9040 or Katishi on 082 467 2509.