Sour Grapes
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War on Want's report, Sour Grapes, cites worsening conditions for employees as UK retailers and wine brokers drive down suppliers' prices to boost their profits. The report shows how supermarkets and wine agents force suppliers to cut production costs by dominating markets and abusing their buyer power. This traps vineyard and fruit employees in low pay and insecure jobs, with farmers increasingly hiring seasonal employees who earn less and lack entitlements received by permanent workers, such as housing and sick pay.
The report also looks at the role of Sikhula Sonke, a women-led trade union which represents marginalised people working on the vineyards and fruit farms of South Africa's Western Cape province. War on Want supports trade unions such as Sikhula Sonke and campaigns in the UK against the exploitation of workers producing for UK supermarkets. Join our campaign in the fight against supermarket power.
