About 160 mariners and engineers were expected to strike on Thursday.
Marine pilots, tug masters and marine engineering officers at South Africa’s ports are preparing to strike from 6am on Thursday.
“White mariners [draw] higher salaries than their black counterparts even when they have less experience,” said Satawu spokesperson, Zanele Sabela. But Transnet officials on Tuesday said it had plans in place to minimise disruptions if the strike went ahead. They were responding to a question raised from the floor at a Port Consultative Committee roadshow meeting in Durban.Speaking outside the meeting, Tshwaelo Matlhape, TNPA senior operations’ manager for Durban, said its tugs were operating as normal at present, with no disruption to services.
He said it was unclear if there was any link between the absenteeism and the threatened strike, but said it had caused no delays to operations in the country’s most important port. Another senior Transnet official, who asked not to be named, said the port authority was still trying to reach an agreement with the union.
She said Satawu then requested a neutral party be commissioned to investigate and make recommendations, “but management declined the request”.
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