7 December 2016.
South Africa’s poultry industry marched with the Food and Allied Workers’ Union (FAWU) against chicken dumping.
Instead of Christmas bonuses, thousands of workers in the chicken industry face retrenchments by the end of the year, as the local industry tightens its belt due to the increased dumping of imported chicken on the South African market.
Local producer RCL FOODS joined forces with the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) in a march protesting this ongoing threat to job security, which took place in Pietermaritzburg.