The dairies' parent company, Ohlthaver & List, said on Tuesday that an agreement valid for the next 12 months had been reached between the O&L Group of Companies and the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau).

"The parties entered into a substantive agreement", the statement reads, "thereby agreeing to deal with the dispute over salaries/wages and conditions of employment together with employees' demands for bonuses.

A comprehensive agreement was reached addressing all the matters in dispute."

Asked about the details of this agreement, O&L Group Manager for Public Relations Patrick Hashingola said it had been agreed not to make its contents public.

Nafau Secretary General Kiros Sackaria declined to comment.

The initial meetings between the company and the union on Thursday and Friday last week did not end satisfactorily, and workers continued their work stoppage on Monday.

O&L confirmed in their statement that the strikes had caused a temporary backlog of orders, and promised its customers that the issue was being addressed.

The company maintains that the strike was illegal, and Hashingola said earlier that workers involved would not be paid for the duration of the strike.

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