Workers at Walmart’s South Africa Unit Drop Union for Wage Offer
- Massmart says about 17% of union members have resigned
- More disillusioned staff may leave union, company says
A Makro store in Alberton, South Africa.
Photographer: Dean Hutton/Bloomberg
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Massmart Holdings Ltd. expects more workers at its Makro stores to leave the South African Commercial‚ Catering and Allied Workers’ Union in order to accept the Walmart Inc.-owned company’s wage offer.
About 800, or 17%, of the Makro Saccawu members have resigned from the union and the firms sees more joining them after receiving “a flurry of calls from Makro staff” asking about the required process to leave the union, Massmart corporate affairs head Brian Leroni said by phone.