EWN reports that a task team set up to find money for staff salaries at South African Airways (SAA) said on Friday it would start its work in two weeks’ time.  

The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) had demanded an 8% increase, but in calling off their week-long strike, agreed on a 5.9% pay increase, with the remaining 2.1% that workers were demanding to be sourced by the appointed task team.  Also, talks on retrenchments have been deferred to next year.  Staff returned to work this past weekend.  Numsa’s Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said:  “We will work to ensure that we find the money because we believe that if you guys do what you are supposed to do by dealing with the corruption in the procurement spend, that money can be found.  That’s why we established the task team.”  The Sacca’s Zazi Ntsibanyoni-Mngambi said the task team would not only consist of union representatives and explained further as follows:  “It’s going to be ourselves as unions and SAA management because they are the ones with the contracts, and of course, the CCMA will facilitate and the DP and Treasury will play an oversight role.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgomotso Modise at EWN

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