Timeslive reports that the strike at the SA Post Office (Sapo), which started on 3 July, is over.  

Sapo and its three unions, namely the Communication Workers Union (CWU)‚ the Democratic Postal Workers Union (Depacu) and the SA Postal Workers Union (Sapwu), reached an agreement on salary increases on Wednesday.  All Sapo employees will get a 6.5% salary increase‚ backdated to 1 April.  The working hours for permanent part-time employees have been increased from 21.5 hours to 27.5 hours per week and five hundred of these positions have been earmarked to be phased in as permanent full-time employees in due course‚ following an appropriate process.  Accumulated mail is expected to take roughly 20 work days to be processed.

• Read the original of this report by Nico Gous at Timeslive
• See too, Sapo, unions strike deal to end wage strike, at EWN

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