South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu)organized a national strike by 110 000 members favouring the call given by Cosatu for on Thursday.
This strike is part of the movement by the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) to emphasize the ongoing loss of jobs and mass poverty.
Ebrahim Patel, General Secretary, Sactwu, said that the union wanted to identify with the public to show shared aims with some of the lowest paid workers in the manufacturing industry participating in the strike.
In the last three years, more than 62 000 garments, textile and footwear jobs have been mislaid due to imports from China.
Fashion and design are enchanting but in actuality of joblessness and poor wages is awfully contrary.
Workers make out a living on less than R100 a day, however jobs keep on to be mislaid in the course of the escalating affinity of retailers to import.
Patel added garments imports had augmented by 480 percent ever since January 2003.
Above all South Africa's trade shortage with China has grown to untenable levels over this period.
Regrettably the sourcing carried out by the retailers escort to the job losses of workers in factories.
Patel expected thousands of workers would participate in rally and demonstrations in all major cities throughout the nation in support of the strike call given on Thursday.
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