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Greyhound closure could see 700 job losses
KAP Industrialâs Unitrans Passenger subsidiary faces a showdown with unions over the plan to shut the luxury coach operator down. 14:14
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Greyhound, which has been in business since 1984, confirmed on Wednesday that its operations will cease by Valentineâs Day due to Covid-19 s impact. Image: Greyhound website
Up to 700 jobs are on the line from the planned closure of popular inter-city bus service Greyhound, unions warned on Wednesday.
However, National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) secretary general Irvin Jim has threatened to interdict Greyhoundâs owners Unitrans Passenger to stop closure, saying the union was only informed of the Section 189 retrenchment process on Tuesday.
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British energy workers’ strikes continue
Engineers and office staff at energy company British Gas are continuing their strikes, begun January 7 against an inferior contract, with a five-day walkout. The GMB union members also held 24-hour strikes on January 20, 22, and 25, and a four-day strike is planned from today. On January 22, pickets publicly burnt the new employment contracts spelling out inferior terms.
The workers voted by an 89 percent majority for action. They are opposed to the company’s plans to “fire and rehire,” putting them on a contract with less favourable conditions and a 20 percent pay cut. The strikers include 4,000 service and repair gas engineers, 1,700 smart metering engineers, 600 central heating installers, 540 electrical engineers and 170 specialist business gas engineers. The strikers carried out socially distanced pickets throughout the country.
VICTORY FOR RETRENCHED WORKERS Numsa members protest outside Macsteel. Photo by Misheck Makora.
On Monday NUMSA took to the streets to demand that 99 workers who were retrenched from Macsteel in December be given their jobs back.
The union called off its strike after it reached an agreement with the steel producing company that the retrenched workers can return to work on Monday 25 January.
Its secretary-general Irvin Jim said they are happy that the workers have got their jobs back.
“We are pleased to say that Macsteel has agreed that all employees who were retrenched must report to their offices on Monday the 25th of January in order to discuss their placement in vacant positions available.
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