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EWN reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) kicked off a national bargaining conference on Monday.
The union and all bargaining officials in various sectors met to prepare and consolidate demands as part of preparations for wage talks. Numsa president Andrew Chirwa observed that organised labour was not as militant as it used to be and employers might see this as an opportunity to collapse collective bargaining. "Perhaps they are reading weakness in the trade union movement itself. They want to collapse collective bargaining through whatever means possible so that each and every individual or a group of workers can negotiate for themselves, and then you can have many rates of pay, some can get 5% and others will get 7%. If you are a good blue-eyed boy of management, you are likely to quickly get some from 10% t0 15% and nobody must question that," Chirwa opined.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Masechaba Sefularo at EWN
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