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South Africa: Fawu to use World Cup to put pressure on ABI
[SABCNews: 2010-02-08]

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The Food and Allied Workers" Union (Fawu) is planning a World Cup linked campaign against Coca-Cola products after unsuccessful wage talks with Amalgamated Beverages Industries (ABI), a spokesperson said today. "Unions can use the coming World Cup to twist the arm of the employers to certain concessions," Fawu general secretary Katishi Masemola told the media in Johannesburg today. Some 2 500 workers remained on strike after wage talks between the union and Fawu failed to yield an agreement. M. . .
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