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News24 reports that the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has committed to "continued interactions" with organised labour, facilitated by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), as it forges ahead with its plans to retrench employees.
Unions representing staff at the public broadcaster picketed outside its offices throughout the country on Friday and submitted a memorandum, demanding that the SABC stop its planned staff cuts. In a statement on Friday, the broadcaster said it "noted the peaceful picketing which took place at its various offices around the country by unions" and said it would engage with unions in a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 13 November 2018. The unions slammed the SABC's restructuring plans and demanded at Friday's demonstration that it should find alternative ways of generating revenue and keeping jobs. Aubrey Tshabalala of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned that "retrenchments should not be on the table for any reason, but a new funding model for the SABC". He also demanded that the broadcaster should respond to their grievances by 16 November or face "a full-blown strike" and a "shutdown of the SABC".
- Read a short report by Pelane Phakgadi and view a video in this regard at News24
- Read too, SABC threatened with shutdown over retrenchment notice, at News24
- And also, Parliament's public accounts committee sends SABC packing, at BusinessLive
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