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 * Media statement – 22 July**

=COSATU supports strikers=

The Congress of South African Trade Unions declares its total support for the strikes starting today at SAA and Pick’n Pay. The workers in both companies are fully justified in demanding a bigger share of the profits which have been made as a result of their hard work. The claims being made by SATAWU and SACCAWU are fully in line with the aims and objectives of COSATU’s Jobs and Poverty Campaign, which seeks to raise workers’ real living standards and begin to close the apartheid wage gap.

South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies on earth and COSATU is determined to close the vast and unacceptable gap between the extremes of poverty and wealth. Increasing the pay of the lowest paid workers is an essential part of the struggle to create a more equitable and fair distribution of wealth.

COSATU will do everything possible to assist its affiliates in their fight. We call upon all workers to join their pickets and demonstrations and to boycott SAA and Pick’n Pay if they try to operate by using scab labour.

We appeal to both SAA and Pick’n Pay management to take note of the workers’ anger and determination, to respond urgently to their demands and bring better offers to the negotiating table, so that the disputes can be settled satisfactorily.

Congress of South African Trade Unions 1-5 Leyds Cnr Biccard Streets Braamfontein, 2017
 * Paul Notyhawa (Spokesperson)

P.O.Box 1019 Johannesburg, 2000 South Africa

Cell: 082 491 1591 Tel: +27 11 339-4911/24 Fax: +27 11 339-5080/6940 E-Mail: patrick@cosatu.org.za**