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BL Premium reports that Eskom revised a wage offer from 3.75% to 4.5%, effective 1 July 2023, during the third and final round of wage talks at the central bargaining forum on Tuesday.
Eskom spokesperson Daphne Mokwena indicated that the unions rejected the revised offer. Earlier the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) lowered its wage demands from 12% down to 11%, while the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) revised its wage demand down to 12%. Solidarity deputy general secretary Helgard Cronje said the union’s wage demand of CPI (which advanced to 7.1% in March from 7% in February) plus 3% had not changed. “We are hoping other unions can come down so we could have a consolidated labour representation,” Cronje said. If parties do not reach a wage deal by Thursday, the last day of the final round of talks, they could agree to an extended negotiation programme or they could declare a dispute and refer the matter to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). “Parties are still committed to try and seek a settlement. The progress has been very good,” Cronje commented.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Read too, Unions reject Eskom's revised wage offer, at EWN
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