Massmart rips into union after 48-hour strike notice

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Makro's grim warning to striking workers

Walmart-owned Massmart, which owns and operates Makro, Game, and Builders, has warned trade union Saccawu that its members are not irreplaceable and may even be redundant.

Saccawu told Sowetan it gave Massmart 48 hours’ notice for a planned strike on Friday, 27 January 2023, after wage negotiations at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration failed.
 
The inevitable...

“Notwithstanding that the 2022 Makro negotiation cycle has closed, Saccawu has tabled new demands, including a two-year moratorium on retrenchments,” Massmart said in a statement on Thursday.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Shopping at Makro might be a pleasant experience with all the Union staff on strike in all honesty... won't get bugged by 20 different sales people wanting to put their sticker on things.
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Stopped going there many moons ago. Each time i walked in and saw the line of shoppers waiting in till line snaking through the aisles. No thx
 
has warned trade union Saccawu that its members are not irreplaceable and may even be redundant.
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Fire every single one of these creatures.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Shopping at Makro might be a pleasant experience with all the Union staff on strike in all honesty... won't get bugged by 20 different sales people wanting to put their sticker on things.
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Last time I was there they all ignored me and they were standing in the corner talking amongst themselves, as soon as I had two trolleys full of stuff one guy decides to run to me to “help” and put stickers on my stuff, I told him to go back to his corner meeting and leave me the ferk alone.
 
rvZA said:
They should scale down and close down over a period of time or sell operations to locals at a loss and write it off. South Africa is not a country where businesses can flourish or operate properly.
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Africa certainly isn't for sissies. But with the right attitude, any business can thrive here.

For example, they should start turning Marko into a costco type business. Keep out the riffraff and rake in membership fees.
 
They should talk to the 300 odd Denny mushroom farm workers. They burnt the place for 1 percent more than was being offered, now the lot of them are sitting under a tree permanently.

Their mentality generally lands them exactly where they belong, and that's a good thing, imo.
 
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