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Engineering News reports that parties to the Metals and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC) have voted in favour of the extension of the three-year agreement reached in the metals and engineering sector in 2017 to nonparties.
Lucio Trentini of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) said on Tuesday that the employer parties supporting the extension of the 2017 to 2020 agreement represented 65% of the employees working for companies registered with the MEIBC. Seifsa-affiliated employer associations represented 58% of these employees. The collective main agreement concluded on 23 August 2017 between the 21 Seifsa-affiliated employers’ organisations and the industries’ five trade unions will now be submitted to the Department of Labour with a request for the Labour Minister to gazette the agreement and make it legally binding on all employers falling within its scope, excluding the plastics sector. During Tuesday’s meeting, the five trade unions party to the council all supported the extension of the main agreement to nonparties. These trade unions were the Metal and Electrical Workers Union of SA, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, the South African Wind Energy Association, Solidarity and Uasa.
- Read this report in full at Engineering News
Read Seifsa’s press statement in this regard at Seifsa News
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