[miningmx.com] – STEEL and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) has given unions until July 25 to agree to a government-sponsored wage proposal that it warned would cost jobs, said BDLive.
The Department of Labour last week proposed a settlement of between 9% and 10% for lower job categories, and 7% to 8% for higher categories in an effort to end a three-week strike by some 220,000 metal workers, largely members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa).
A sticking point, said BDLive, is that Seifsa wants unions to agree to a clause preventing strike action based on plant-level demands. Seifsa has estimated the strike is costing the economy about R300m a day.
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