The strike at the dairy company continues, with exhausted workers demanding an end to compulsory weekend and public holiday work as well as overtime being forced on them
Yet another retrenchment shock is due to hit South Africa, this time at dairy giant Clover South Africa, according to trade union Solidarity. The union claimed that Clover plans to save approximately R100-million in personnel expenses this year.
Ewa got on the bus to Brussels on Easter Monday. Two days earlier, her mother had returned home to this small town near the border with Belarus from months of scrubbing and cleaning in a suburb of the Belgian capital; now Ewa was on her way to replace her, cleaning the loos, minding the kids, and running the errands of the well-heeled European elite.