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Reuters reports that Solidarity has given Sasol a 48-hour notice to strike over the petrochemical giant’s plan to launch a share ownership scheme exclusively for black staff, the trade union said on Tuesday.
This followed after 95% of the union’s Sasol members in Sasolburg voted to go on strike after 83% of its members at Sasol in Secunda also voted in favour of a strike. Sasol plans to sell 25% of its local operations to mainly qualifying black employees in a R21 billion deal that would be vendor-financed by the company. Sasol has previously defended the scheme, saying it was not a company benefit but one that was specifically designed to address Sasol’s ownership component under SA’s black economic empowerment rules. Solidarity Chief Executive Dirk Hermann said with the delivery of the strike notice: “Our members at Sasol unanimously said: Enough is enough. This type of crude racial exclusion cannot be tolerated any longer. These white workers are also valuable.” The union pointed out that the strike notice did not necessarily mean that it would hold the industrial action after 48 hours.
- Read this report by Tiisetso Motsoeneng in full at Moneyweb
- Read Solidarity’s press statement at SA Labour News
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