They have accused the dairy giant of stalling before it called an ambulance when striking workers were kidnapped and beaten for hours outside Clover’s premises in Clayville in Olifantsfontein, Gauteng – in full view of the company’s management – on Monday.
The Braamfontein Labour Court has ordered the General Industries Workers’ Union of SA (Giwusa) to clear social media messages that incites the removal of Clover products from shelves.
The conflict at Clover is seen as a matter of supporting either greater benefit to the majority or increased profits to the shareholding few, says Terry Bell.
The Giwusa union national organiser Charles Phahla says the ‘escalation of hostilities on the part of the company’ was a bid to undermine any intervention from the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition.