Workers of the Seaflower Whitefish Corporation at Lüderitz, ||Karas Region, threatened the company's management with unspecified actions over unpaid bonuses and wage increase back payments. 

Picketing in front of the company's office during lunch hour, the workers accused the company management of failing to honour a wage agreement signed in May this year. 

As per the agreement, the Namibia Seamen and Allied Workers Union and the company management agreed on back-payments for 2020 and 2021, as well as bonuses.  

The workers, however, maintained that the company has since failed to implement the agreement. 

Equally, they accuse the company's CEO Alex Gawa!nab of sowing division among them. 

"We demand the company management to fully implement the agreement to avoid any provocation of the workers. We demand our full back payment and bonus to be before the end of this month. We as workers of Seaflower have lost confidence in our CEO and leadership. We have so many problems at our company and the CEO is always tried to divide the workers and in the process, the workers are the ones suffering" said Elifas Simon, a union shop steward at the company.

Receiving the petition, Gawa!nab says the global economic downturn has also impacted the company.

"Globally we know what happened, we did not predict and anticipate that the war in Russia and Ukraine would happen, what has happened directly affecting us is that the fuel price, which we rely on so heavily because our fleet has doubled wiping out our reserves."

Gawa!nab says the company has offered to pay 50% of bonuses and back pay to its employees before the end of this month, while the remaining portion will be paid in instalments.
 
He also countered that the employees are already divided since they are affiliated with different unions.

" I don't know why people are instigated to go on this unnecessary action, if they were reasonable, they would have implemented what we have offered to the union".

NASAWU Branch Organiser, Petrus Josef disagreed with Gawa!nab, saying the workers are not unreasonable. He claimed the money was available, but that the company spent it on other expenses.

The unionist vowed the workers won't budge on their demands.