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The Citizen reports that workers at Tenneco Automotive in the Eastern Cape affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) have been on strike for seven weeks.
The workers are demanding the immediate reinstatement of all 87 dismissed workers who rejected down-variation of pay rates, the dismissed workers’ wage rate of R114 per hour be retained and the equalisation of rates for all employees doing the same work as those earning R114 per hour. Numsa indicated on Friday that 87 workers remained unfairly dismissed and added that one worker had passed away due to a heart attack, because of the ‘rigid’ attitude displayed by the employer. While the CCMA has tried several times to intervene, the employer has apparently refused all efforts to resolve the impasse. Numsa advised it had applied for a section 150 application in terms of the Labour Relations Act to permit the CCMA to appoint someone to facilitate resolution of the dispute between the parties. The union added that it has begun a process of consulting workers from four sister companies falling under the component manufacturing sector and auto assemblers, with the intention of getting support for solidarity action. The union said the strike was indefinite and would continue until all demands were met.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Siphumelele Khumalo at The Citizen
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