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EWN reports that the Road Freight Association (RFA) on Sunday said that although the planned stay-away by foreign truck drivers this week would likely have a minimal impact on the industry, some businesses could be hit hard.
The foreign drivers plan to pull up their handbrakes this week to protest against continued attacks by locals who want them to be replaced by South Africans. The RFA’s CEO Gavin Kelly said that although they were not formally informed about the planned industrial action, they were concerned about the potential risks it presented. The SADC Crossborder Drivers Association and other similar groupings do not form part of collective bargaining structures in the industry, which means they have less bargaining power. However, the organisations have been mobilising for action through social media over the past week. Kelly said that some businesses would be affected: “That money is lost; that day or three days of potential revenue is lost and you never make it up. You always try to make it up but you never do.” He also expressed concern about the security of the drivers who could prove to be easy targets for people with anti-foreign labour sentiments. Dozens of people have already been killed in the long-running dispute over driver jobs in the trucking industry.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Theto Mahlakoana at EWN
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