World Cup stewards go on strike 15/06/2010 |
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A strike by stewards at Monday night’s World Cup game between Italy and Paraguay forced nearly a 1,000 police to be drafted into the Cape Town stadium.
Stallion Security, which employs the stewards, claims workers had been ‘misled’ by jealous commercial rivals who had failed to get the World Cup tender.
On Sunday, police were forced to fire rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up a protest by around 400 stewards in Durban following Germany’s win over Australia at the Moses Madhiba stadium.
According to protesters, they received 190 rand ($25) for their work but had been promised a far more lucrative deal.
Rich Mkhondo, the organising committee spokesman insists a meeting is planned “to make sure things are ironed out and that we will not see a repeat of what happened.”
Tuesday’s games are set to go ahead as planned with police and non-striking stewards providing security.
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