Business Report writes that a new agreement on wages and conditions of service for the retail motor industry is unlikely to be in place before the current agreement lapses at the end of August.
Tom Mkhwanazi, general secretary of the Motor Industry Bargaining Council (Mibco), expressed confidence on Tuesday that a strike could be avoided in negotiating a new agreement, but did not believe it would be in place before the old deal lapsed. He said the conditions from the last agreement would be applicable to the industry if the agreement lapsed without the gazetting of a new agreement. Employees would not receive a wage increase until the new agreement was gazetted. The negotiations involve the Fuel Retailers Association, the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), National Employers Association of SA, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and Motor Industry Staff Association (Misa).
- Read this report by Roy Cokayne in full at Business Report
- See too, Motor industry strike can be avoided, says bargaining council general secretary, at Business Report
- And also, As wage talks continue, Mibco positive strike will be avoided, at Engineering News
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