"Government must act on poultry industry crisis, says Cosatu", 11 Jan 2017

Cosatu on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned by the pending jobs blood bath in the poultry industry, and also alarmed by government's "deafening silence" on a matter of the utmost national concern. This comes after Rainbow Chickens Limited, the country's biggest chicken producer, indicated that it would be retrenching 1 350 farm workers and close four farms in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal...."Our poultry industry is under severe pressure from the concessions government was forced to make to the United States to allow South Africa to remain part of the US's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade agreement with African nations," Cosatu said...Cosatu proposed that government holds an urgent meeting with the poultry sector to develop an action plan to save jobs and put in place and enforce protective measures for the sector to block cheap imports and dumping.