STAFF REPORTER
THE South African Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) will on Friday hold nationwide marches to various Makro stores to hand over memorandum of demands.
The strike action at Makro stores will resume from March 24, 2023, and will continue up until 02 April 2023.
The main march will be held in Pretoria where the memorandum will be handed over to Makro store at Woonderboom, north of Pretoria.
Civil society organisations in South Africa and International Trade Union Federations have been galvanized to rally behind SACCAWU and boycott all Walmart/Makro products during this period.
The union is demanding a 12% salary increase, with an R8 000 minimum wage.
Makro has offered a 4.5% wage increase.
Meanwhile, UNI Global Union and the UNI Africa Massmart Alliance of trade unions are calling on the retail group to stop union busting at its Makro stores in South Africa and immediately reinstate
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