ANA reports that the United National Transport Union (Untu) said on Friday that it planned to take the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) to court for an interdict to force the latter to protect its employees against criminals.  

“The court is the union’s last resort in its fight to protect its Prasa membership, especially train crews, against increasing senseless violent attacks from criminals who know that they are defenseless soft targets,” Untu general secretary, Steve Harris, said in a statement.  Harris stated that the union had tried all other avenues to convince Prasa’s management to adhere to their obligations as an employer.  Last week, Untu reported on the latest attack in which an injured train driver drove with pieces of glass in his eyes from one station to the next after an attacker threw a brick that shattered the front window of his train.

• Read this report in full at The Citizen
• See too, Veiligheid vir werknemers op treine: Saak kom teen Prasa, at Netwerk24 (limit on access)
• Read Untu’s press statement in this regard at Polity

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