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Fawu vows to fight job losses in poultry industry

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The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) on Monday made an impassioned plea to government to tighten regulations of importing chickens from the European Union (EU) in a bid to save jobs in the South African poultry industry. This comes after South Africa’s biggest chicken producer, Rainbow Chicken, announced that it was selling 15 of its 25 farms in Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal and retrenching 1,350 workers to remain a going concern as it struggles under heavy competition from cheap imported chickens.
 
 
 
 
 

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