Satawu willing to compromise with Transnet on wage demands
It's been more than a week since the strike at Transnet left ports and rail services across South Africa crippled.
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It's 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.