SAA unions want salaries to be paid within seven days Thando Maeko
Picture: Neil McCartney The two unions have suggested that the outstanding balance of five months’ pay be delayed to later in 2021 or that the money owed to employees be turned into equity.
Workers at South African Airways (SAA) have not been paid since March 2020, meaning that by the end of this month they will have been without salaries or benefits for 10 months.
Two labour unions – the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) – now want the the Labour Court to compel the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) and the airline’s rescue practitioners to pay over three months’ deferred salaries to their members.
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THE countrywide protest action by the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (NAFAU) that was planned for Thursday continued on Friday and Saturday with severe disruption at the Dunes Mall in Walvis Bay.
The management of the Dunes Mall had no choice but to intervene and block members of the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement who disrupted the business of all retail outlets after they threatened customers while marching through other parts of the shopping centre.
On Friday, aggrieved workers employed by Shoprite, Checkers and USave accused NAFAU of siding with the retailer instead of carrying their plight forward.
The workers requested the AR to assist them to close shops countrywide to drive their message home.
KANSANSHI Mining Plc management has saluted labour leaders from five trade unions for the commitment exhibited during the just-ended collective bargaining process for improved conditions of service for the 2,350 unionised workers at the First Quantum Minerals’ subsidiary mine.
The management team from Kansanshi Mining Plc and union leaders from the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia (MUZ), National Union of Mining and Allied Workers (Numaw), United Mineworkers Union of Zambia (UMUZ), Miners and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and Consolidated Mining and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CMAWUZ) agreed to a salary increment of 15 percent for this year and 11 percent for 2022.
The negotiations for the 2021 to 2022 collective agreement which commenced in October 2020 were successfully concluded on Wednesday this week after 13 bargaining sessions.