During a rally at the Community Centre in Bellville South, members said the salary increases currently being offered by employers in the engineering sector would not improve their lives.
Cape Town – More than 400 workers affiliated with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in the Western Cape have joined their 300 000 comrades in a national strike after wage negotiations reached a deadlock with the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa .
South African Federation of Trade Unions provincial secretary Andre Adams said the striking workers should prepare for a fight, and that the federation was in talks about how they could support the Numsa strike. “As Saftu, we have to support our national office bearers, and all of Saftu is supporting the metal workers. All our workers are supporting you,” said Adams.
’’By the time we came to the figure of 8%, we had compromised on an initial demand, where we moved from 15% to 8%.
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