Fin24 reports that the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) will press on with secondary strikes at Massmart companies on Thursday after talks to resolve a wage dispute at Makro failed.

The union advised that talks at the CCMA ended late on Tuesday with no resolution. Saccawu said in a statement that workers at Makro would go ahead with their strike action on Thursday, which would include secondary strikes at Massmart’s Game, Fruitshop, Rhino, Builders Warehouse Shield and Jumbo in solidarity with Makro workers. The union's demands at Makro include an across-the-board increase of R900 or 12%, whichever is the greater, a minimum wage of R8,000, an increase to the commission on sales of 20%, and a moratorium on retrenchments. Massmart’s Brian Leroni said Saccawu tabled new demands at the CCMA on Tuesday and the company's negotiating team indicated that they would need to take those back to management for discussion. "The union rejected this request out of hand and walked out of the CCMA meeting,” he claimed. Leroni advised that Massmart's position was that the 2022 wage negotiations had closed as 800 Makro employees had resigned from Saccawu, with more staff members daily indicating that they wished to resign to receive their increases and nine months' back pay.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khulekani Magubane at Fin24

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