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The Sunday Independent reports that SA Post Office (Sapo) workers have called on Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele to urgently intervene in their wage negotiation deadlock with Sapo management.
On Saturday, Aubrey Tshabalala, Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary, said they reached a deadlock in negotiations on Friday after his members rejected Sapo’s offer of a 6.5% increase backdated to April. “We rejected the new offer. The view of the workers was that they had initially demanded a 12% increase which was later reduced to 8% following protracted negotiations,” Tshabalala indicated. He added that Sapo also offered to increase the working hours of its part-time workers from 21 hours a week to 25. But, the union has demanded that those workers should be converted into permanent staff, saying most of them had been in their jobs for more than three months. On Thursday, Cwele and Sapo chief executive Mark Barnes expressed their confidence that the wage dispute would be amicably resolved.
- Read more of this The Sunday Independent report by Baldwin Ndaba at SA Labour News
- Read too, Social grant beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues, at GroundUp
- And also, KZN Post Office workers down tools, at The Citizen
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