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Engineering News reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has started with nationwide demonstrations, even while wage negotiations with the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) are ongoing.
According to Seifsa, this action has, so far, involved peaceful demonstration and not picketing. Picketing may only be embarked on in support of a protected strike or in opposition to a lock-out, but neither parties has served strike or lock-out notices on the other. Meanwhile, the parties continue with negotiations on the federation’s wage offer. Seifsa first made a wage offer on 28 July, during which other trade unions indicated a willingness to accept the offer, but Numsa shortly thereafter declared a deadlock with the federation.
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