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The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) has declared a national wage dispute in the clothing sector as, after three rounds of negotiations, the parties failed to reach a wage settlement.
Clothing employers have apparently made final offer of a 7% wage increase, which has been rejected. The union’s members are demanding an 8% package increase for metro areas and 8.5% for non-metro areas. Sactwu general secretary Andre Kriel indicated that the next step in the process was conciliation and the union had written to the National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry (NBC) for its general secretary to set up the conciliation in accordance with the council’s constitution. Kriel said that if clothing employers did not concede to the union’s final demands during conciliation, 60,000 clothing workers might embark on a wage strike. The clothing sector is the largest organised sector within the Cosatu affiliate.
- Read Sactwu’s press statement on this matter at Cosatu News
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