Showing posts with label Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Eskom workers strike despite court ruling

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