PRASA WANTS TO “TALK” TO LABOUR AMIDST STRIKE BALLOT

PRASA WANTS TO “TALK” TO LABOUR AMIDST STRIKE BALLOT

The top management of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) wants to talk to labour about wages, although a strike ballot has already been issued to its employees.

Lindikhaya Zide, Acting Group Chief Executive of Prasa, requested a meeting with the leadership of the United National Transport Union (UNTU), for tomorrow morning after the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) issued Labour with a certificate of non-resolution on the wage dispute last week.

The certificate gives UNTU members at Prasa the right to embark on a protected strike within 48 hours.

UNTU is, in terms of its Constitution, in the process of getting a strike ballot from members to indicate if they want to accept Prasa’s final wage offer of a 6% salary increase or are they prepared to strike for their demand of a 10% salary increase.  UNTU branches will submit their mandates on 24 April 2017.

Steve Harris, General Secretary of UNTU, says the 6% offer from Prasa, after bus drivers last week received 9%, remains an insult to employees. Prasa is also not prepared to increase any of the allowances Labour demanded. These allowances have not been increased in years.

“Mr. Zide will be wasting his time if he does not have a better offer ready for us come tomorrow morning,” says Harris.

For more information contact Steve Harris on 082 566 5516.

 Issued on behalf of UNTU by Sonja Carstens, Media and Liaison Officer. For UNTU Press Releases e-mail sonja@untu.co.za or phone 082 463 6806. 

 

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