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Hundreds of Festive Chicken workers down tools

Workers are demanding a monthly wage of R13,500, medical aid benefits and safer working conditions

Striking workers picketed outside Festive Chicken’s Olifantsfontein processing plant on Tuesday. They are demanding a wage increase, medical aid benefits and safer working conditions. Photos: Seth Thorne

Festive Chicken workers have been on strike since 29 October following a wage negotiation deadlock at the CCMA.
Workers at the processing plant say they earn between R5,400 and R6,500. They are demanding to be paid R13,500. They also want medical aid benefits and safer working conditions.
The company has said the R13,500 wage demand was unaffordable and could threaten jobs.

More than 100 people gathered outside Festive Chicken’s Olifantsfontein processing plant on Tuesday, where striking workers have been picketing since 29 October. They are demanding to be paid R13,500, medical aid benefits…

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