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East Asian imports provoke worker backlash in South Africa

20/08/2001

At the core of the union’s grievances is the continuing large scale substitution of domestically produced items in the shops by cheap imports from East Asia. The union is also angry at what it sees as the overly-aggressive pricing policies of many retailers towards their suppliers and the downward pressure this has had on wages.

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