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BusinessLive reports that according to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), it is willing to revisit its demand for higher wages in the automotive sector, which analysts warn would scare away investors and add to SA’s unemployment crisis.
On Monday, Vusumuzi Mkhungo, Numsa’s co-ordinator of the auto and tyre sector, said the union was willing to tone down its demand for a one-year 20% wage increase across the board. But that would depend on whether the Automotive Manufacturing Employers Organisation (Ameo) acceded to some of Numsa’s other wide-ranging demands. These include morning, afternoon and night allowances of 10%, 20% and 30%, respectively. Numsa is also demanding an annual bonus increase from 8.33% to 12%, six months’ paid maternity leave and 10 days’ paid paternity leave, as well as a transport allowance of R5,000 per month. Numsa also wants clerks, welders, spray painters and metal-finish workers to be paid a 20% allowance, among other demands. A new wage agreement between Numsa and Ameo will replace the three-year agreement that came to an end on 30 June. “We are hoping for the best and we are willing to negotiate with them on the demands we have tabled, if they give in on some of our demands. That includes relooking or revisiting our demand for the 20% wage increase because it’s tied to some of our demands and they are not cast in stone,” Mkhungo commented.
- Read the full original of Luyolo Mkentane’s report on the above story at BusinessLive
- See too, Demand for new cars remains weak, says Naamsa, at Engineering News
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