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BusinessLive reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) said on Thursday that its members at the Road Accident Fund (RAF) were striking for higher wages and to protest the agency’s "shambolic management".
The RAF claimed on Thursday that less than 150 employees were picketing and that it could not accede to demands from Numsa that it should adopt "unverified, nebulous, proposed salary scales" and that despite severe financial pressures, it was continuing to remunerate employees fairly. Numsa, which claims to represent 1,500 of the RAF’s 2,863 staff, will also protest at the Department of Transport on Friday. According to the union, its lowest paid members received R5,000 after deductions. The RAF responded by saying it engaged in benchmarking exercises and the average salary among Numsa’s 1,000 aligned employees was R350,000 a year.
- Read this report by Karl Gernetzky in full at BusinessLive
- See too, RAF 'in shambles', say striking Numsa workers, at Fin24
- And also, Numsa workers go on strike at Road Accident Fund, at eNCA
- Read Numsa’s press statement in this regard at Numsa online
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