South
Africa's largest union is going ahead with plans to picket the country's main
energy supplier.
This
is despite a court order barring it from undertaking strike action at the firm.
The
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) went on strike on
Tuesday to demand higher wages.
Part
of the demand is a pay increase for staff at the state-funded energy utility
Eskom, where NUMSA has around 10,000 members.
About
600 Eskom employees were estimated to be
