Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) members will march to the Nestlé headquarters in Randburg on Friday following a wage talks deadlock, the union said on Tuesday.
Marchers will request management to review negotiations in order to reach a settlement.
About 2 200 workers of Nestlé and members of the union have been on strike since January 3, Fawu said. It is demanding an 8% increase while the company has offered 6,4%.
The dispute went to the CCMA in December and then members embarked on a one-day national strike on December 14.
”The company chose to respond on the 24th of December and complained over strike rules in which they clearly opted to follow the confrontational route. This derailed further explanatory talks to break the impasse between the two parties,” Fawu said.
”The company left the union with no option but to embark on a full-blown strike.”
The union said the strike had now began to bite at plants in Pietermaritzburg, Mossel Bay, Standerton, Bellville, East London, Babalegi and Harrismith.
”The union will engage in protracted action that will necessitate solidarity strikes if no settlement is reached soon,” said Fawu. – Sapa