Transnet employees have been on strike since Thursday.
- Transnet employees aligned with the SA Transport and Allied Staff Union and United Nationwide Transport Union launched into a strike on Thursday amid a wage dispute.
- The corporate maintains that the strike is unprotected.
- Unions have vowed to proceed picketing exterior the corporate’s premises on Monday.
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Transnet employees’ ongoing strike is unprotected, the logistics firm maintained after the dismissal of its pressing courtroom software on Friday in opposition to the method unions adopted earlier than members downed instruments.
The state-owned firm dismissed reviews that it misplaced the applying to have the strike declared unprotected, and stated its submissions on a faulty discover interval, lack of secret poll and picketing guidelines weren’t handled.
“The courtroom solely handled whether or not the matter of the unprotected strike was pressing. Transnet stays of the view that the strike is unprotected,” it stated.
The employees launched into the strike on Thursday after they failed to succeed in an settlement with the corporate over wages. The entity has already declared a power majeure at its ports.
Staff affiliated with the South African Transport and Allied Staff Union (Satawu) and the United Nationwide Transport Union (UNTU) are demanding a wage hike of 12%, however Transnet is providing a rise of three% to 4% and an ex gratia cost of R5 000 earlier than tax.
A joint assertion by the unions on Friday revealed that the strike would proceed on Monday as deliberate.
Staff stated they may collect peacefully exterior Transnet premises with out picketing guidelines as there was no settlement on the foundations between Transnet administration and the unions.
Transnet’s providers are vital to the functioning of the South African economic system as its rail operations are utilized by mining corporations and different producers to move sources to the harbour for export.
CEO Portia Derby stated solely the waterside actions of the Transnet Nationwide Ports Authority had been considered important providers – not all operations of the agency, as News24 Enterprise beforehand reported.
Transnet employs greater than 50 000 folks and reported a web revenue of R5 billion for the previous monetary 12 months, primarily owed to an accounting adjustment.
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