ANA reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said on Monday it would be meeting with the management of ITB Plastics and Isithebe Consulting Solutions (ICS) in a bid to resolve a four-week old strike.
ICS is a labour brokering company providing services to plastics manufacturing company, ITB Plastics, in Mandini. Two weeks ago, the companies failed to get a court interdict against the strike. Workers at ITB Plastics, which is owned by NOVUS Holdings and has a total staff complement of 500 people, went on strike last month, demanding a living wage and improved working conditions. Numsa regional secretary Mbuso Ngubane accused the companies of flouting labour laws and not recognising the humanity of workers. "They have installed cameras in the bathrooms which is a violation of privacy. They are also exploiting workers by paying extremely low wages, whilst others are abused through the labour brokering system. Dozens of workers should have been made permanent long ago, but ITB is one of those companies which is deliberately flouting the labour law on this issue," Ngubane claimed.
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- Read Numsa’s press statement in this regard at Numsa News
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