{"id":241850,"date":"2026-08-22T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishing-company-lockout-leaves-workers-without-pay\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:22:48","slug":"namibia-fishing-company-lockout-leaves-workers-without-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fishing-company-lockout-leaves-workers-without-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fishing Company Lockout Leaves Workers Without Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The lockout at Marco Fishing affecting about 300 employees is still ongoing three weeks later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) ||Kharas regional coordinator Simon Mattheus has confirmed the ongoing lockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The company has been engaging in wage negotiations with Nafau, which is demanding a one-year deal that includes N$800 plus a fish commission, bringing the total to N$1 100, as well as N$27 per hour for land-based employees, including transport and housing allowances, among other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lockout at Marco Fishing affecting about 300 employees is still ongoing three weeks later. Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) ||Kharas regional coordinator Simon Mattheus has confirmed the ongoing lockout. The company has been engaging in wage negotiations with Nafau, which is demanding a one-year deal that includes N$800 plus a fish commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7156,6919,9647,55244,4706,724,257,9105,254,6498],"class_list":["post-241850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-company","tag-fishing","tag-leaves","tag-lockout","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}