No image available
Samwu rejects new wage offer
Samwu, whose members have been on strike since Monday, on Thursday rejected the employer’s latest wage offer.
Samwu, whose members have been on strike since Monday, on Thursday rejected the employer’s latest wage offer.
Unions representing municipal workers were inching closer to a wage deal, an official said ahead of a meeting with the employer on Thursday.
Municipal worker unions are set to decide on Wednesday if a new wage offer would be accepted as a national strike enters its third day.
The strike by municipal workers is costing the country in the region of R15-million a day, an economist said on Tuesday.
South African municipal workers are to strike over wages from Monday, unions said, in a move that could hit public services.