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BL Premium reports that a strike has been averted in the passenger bus sector after operators and unions reached a 6% wage agreement.
The deal, which will see the sector’s minimum wage rise from R40.43 to R42.85 an hour, was reached on Tuesday evening at the SA Road Passenger Bargaining Council (Sarpbac). In a statement on Wednesday, Sarpbac’s general secretary Gary Wilson said the agreement was effective from 1 April and would be in force until March 2023. The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) and the Transport and Allied Workers Union went back to their members for a mandate after employers, who had previously said they would give 2.5%, tabled a revised wage offer of 4.5% on 12 April. The unions initially sought 11%. After further engagement among the parties, the employer organisations — namely the SA Bus Employers Association and the Commuter Bus Employers Organisation — revised their wage offer from 4.5% to 5.3% and finally settled at 6%. Wilson said allowances such as those for night shift, subsistence and travel, cross-border work, double driver trips and tools would all go up by 6% as part of the agreement. The increase in allowances had been one of the sticking points as unions had pointed out that they had remained unchanged in the previous two years due to financial challenges wrought by Covid-19 on bus companies
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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