Numsa Strike News Today

The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has embarked on an indefinite strike at Gqeberha automotive component supplier Tenneco to pressurise the company to return to the negotiating table.

Mining unions cannot rule out a strike early next year if the wage deadlock at Sibanye Stillwater is not resolved.

Numsa says employers must agree to workers' demands before things can return to normal.

Thousands of workers affiliated to metalworkers union, Numsa, abandoned their posts last week demanding an 8% wage hike.

Numsa said that its member was killed on the first day of the national engineering strike on Tuesday. Its alleged that a motorist ploughed into a group of workers while they were waiting to be collected at a pick-up point for the march in Wadeville.

Numsa general-secretary Irvin Jim told thousands of workers who gathered at the Mary Fitzgerald Square earlier this week that they must ensure that no rats reported for duty during their national strike.

Thousands of union workers embarked on a rolling strike over wages this week. Theyre demanding an 8% salary increase across the board while employers are offering 4.4%.

A truck driver has been stabbed and assaulted during a protest by National Union of Metalworkers of SA in Boksburg.

Tuesday marked the first day of the nationwide strike in the metal and engineering sector after talks over salary increases reach a deadlocked.

Gauteng police say several shops were vandalised in Anderbolt on Wednesday.