NUMSA and SACCA on Friday rejected job cuts proposed to rescue South African Airways, which has cost the government more than a billion dollars to stave off bankruptcy and will cost it about half that again to reform.
SAA went into a form of bankruptcy protection in December, and since then state-appointed administrators have been trying to see what they can salvage.
The current plan, which would involve laying off about 90% of staff leaving just 1,000 jobs, will cost at least 10 billion rand. That is on top of the 20 billion rand that has been spent just keeping the airline afloat in the past three years. "These workers cannot be sacrificial lambs and we cannot allow for a situation where they must pay for this crisis," the two unions said in a statement.
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