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EWN reports that striking Putco (Public Utility Transport Corporation) drivers at the Dobsonville depot have vehemently rejected a new wage offer proposed by the bus company’s management in bid to bring an end to the wildcat strike.
Putco tabled a final offer after meeting with trade unions on Sunday. Last week, the bus company dismissed 105 bus drivers who had downed tools over a 6% salary increase and bonuses dating back to 2020. In its final offer to the striking drivers, Putco management announced it would pay the 6% wage increase promised to workers, but it would not be back-dated. Putco also said it was willing to pay workers their bonuses, but this would take place over a period of 12 or 18 months. Management, however, asserted that the 105 workers who had been fired for misconduct would not be automatically reinstated and would have to go through a separate disciplinary process. Addressing a crowd outside the Dobsonville depot on Monday, National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) national organiser Fredrick Mabasa said: “The message that we are getting is that you don’t want a 6% wage increase that won’t come with back pay; you want 6% with back pay and your bonus must come in full. If your employer can’t pay it now, then we can agree as to when they can pay it. But it must not come in installments.” Unions are set to give feedback to other striking drivers before reporting back to the bus company’s management.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Veronica Mokhoali at EWN
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