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Johannesburg - SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union (Saccawu) is planning to challenge the interdict granted to Pick n Pay Stores [JSE:PIK] by the Labour Court, which allows the retailer to evict striking workers from its stores.
"We received the court interdict and we intend putting in an urgent application to challenge it... probably in the next week or so," Saccawu spokesperson Mike Abrahams said.
He said that the union wanted the right to strike within the store.
The Labour Court had on Friday granted Pick n Pay the interdict after the union began a national strike, following an ongoing dispute over wages and terms and conditions of employment.
The dispute had been dragging on for more than ten months.
Pick n Pay said that the interdict was to prevent intimidation and unlawful behaviour by employees who were Saccawu members.
The union would also be restrained from encouraging and inciting its members to act unlawfully.
The interdict restricts picketing inside stores pending the determination of picketing rules by the CCMA and prevents blocking of access or exits to stores.
Saccawu would not strike again until they were granted permission to do so by the Labour Court, Abrahams said.
"We have communicated the interdict nationally and told all workers to abide by its terms until we can challenge it," he said.
