Page 2 - Transnet Strike News Today

Its been more than a week since the strike at Transnet left ports and rail services across South Africa crippled.

Farmers are pleading for action as food destined for export rots at ports besieged by Transnet incompetence and a continuing wage dispute.

The United National Transport Union has rejected the CCMA's proposed 6% wage offer.

There's no end in sight for the Transnet strike as South African companies pause their exports. Wage talks have stalled between the parastatal and unions.

On Thursday, the state-owned freight utility offered the unions a three-year wage offer, which entails a 4.5% across-the-board increase in the current year and a 5.3% increase in the two later years but unions have rejected this.

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Speaking on day one of Agri SAs congress in Pretoria on Thursday, Jaco Minnaar told delegates that demands for higher wages did not address other socio-economic issues.

The CCMA has been mediating talks between the parastatal and the unions, who have been engaged in negotiations over wage increases.

Speaking on day one of Agri SAs congress in Pretoria on Thursday, Jaco Minnaar told delegates that demands for higher wages did not address other socio-economic issues.

Transnet says the negotiations have been a delicate balancing act for the company, having to consider affordability and sustainability of the wage increases for the business and having full appreciation of the cost pressures currently facing employees.