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The Citizen reports that the SA Airways Pilots Association (Saapa) has issued a strike notice to state-owned SA Airways (SAA), with a list of unusual demands.
While the industrial action may likely be somewhat symbolic given there is not an operational airline to disrupt, the association’s 350 members have been offensively locked out from the airline since December last year. Presently 31 pilots are not locked out, seven of whom fulfil management roles, while balance belong to the National Transport Movement (NTM) union. Saapa’s demands are threefold. Firstly, that the pilots’ regulating agreement, which emanates from the late ’80s, be terminated on the day the last SAA pilot leaves the building as it relates to the section 189(3) notice dated 18 July 2020. Secondly, the pilots want amended terms and conditions that are now relevant to future pilots in terms of retrenchments and three-month notice periods, to be applied to the retrenchment process of the current flight deck pool. Finally, Saapa wants all pilots who were notified of their imminent retrenchment in July last year to be let go by 15 April and that SAA pay these pilots their remuneration on termination for the three months’ notice that pilots would have received in lieu of the pilots working their notice period. The statement also saw the association not hold back in the sustained war of words between the parties.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Hein Kaiser at The Citizen
- Read too, SAA pilots vote to strike, at BusinessLive
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