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ANA reports that members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) went on strike on Monday at BMW South Africa (BMWSA) over changes to terms of employment at the company’s Rosslyn plant in Pretoria.
Numsa said in a statement that the car manufacturing company was trying to impose a shift rotation system on workers, but did not want to pay the shift allowance which had previously been afforded to workers. According to the union, BMWSA had previously had fixed-term contract workers who were on permanent night shift and they had earned a 28% night shift allowance. But under the new system, the union claimed, the company was only willing to pay them a 23% night shift allowance. Furthermore, the company was allegedly imposing this only on workers who were paid hourly and who did bargain together with “salaried” workers. The company was apparently granted an urgent interdict on Friday to block the strike. But Numsa’s Jerry Morulane said they had applied for leave to appeal the interdict and, in the meantime, they were entitled to continue with the strike because the application for leave to appeal suspended the interdict. However, the company on Monday applied for an urgent interdict to block Numsa members from continuing with the strike, pending the outcome of the appeal.
- Read the full original of the report on the strike at The Citizen
- Read too, Numsa members embark on strike at BMW’s Rosslyn plant, at Engineering News
- Read Numsa’s press statement on the strike at Polity
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