Following a 13-week strike, Robertson Winery has concluded a three-year wage agreement with representative trade union CSAAWU.
The industrial action generated considerable media exposure, given that it coincided with a general expose of terms and conditions in the broader wine industry aired in Denmark which saw several Danish supermarkets removing SA wine from their shelves.
“The agreement will see all employees receiving an increase of 8% or R400, whichever is the greater. This will bring the new ‘cost to company’ to R4263.56 per month,” said Roberston Winery managing director Anton Cilliers.
“The agreement caters for an increase in 2017 and 2018 of CPI plus 1.5% and 1% respectively,” he said.
“We believe CSAAWU’s on-going demand for an increase of 150% was implausible and impossible to consider,” he added.
Normal operations are expected to resume at the winery on Monday (November 28).
