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NUM: NUM Prepares To Meet With Auto Employers For The Second Round Of Wage Talks

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NUM: NUM Prepares To Meet With Auto Employers For The Second Round Of Wage Talks

NUM: NUM Prepares To Meet With Auto Employers For The Second Round Of Wage Talks
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16th July 2019

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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to meet with Auto employers for the second round of wage talks. The wage agreement in the sector has lapsed and we need to negotiate new terms and conditions.  Last week we met employers for two days for the first round of wage talks. Unfortunately, we are still very far from finding each other. We submitted a detailed list of 19 demands which is based on the needs of our members to improve their wages and conditions.

Employers did not engage meaningfully with the demands. They also failed to engage on the demand for the implementation of an industry medical aid, and, for workers who are at Level 4 to be moved to level 5. These are issues which are crucial to our members and unfortunately employers failed to table proposals to take the talks forward.

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Furthermore, they have described the totality of our demands as a demand for a 45 per cent increase. To us this demonstrates their narrow mindedness and their unwillingness to engage with each item we have listed in our demands. The only demand they responded to was to make a 4.5% wage increase offer, in response to our demand for a 20% wage increase. They are unwilling to recognize the difficult socio-economic conditions facing workers in the sector, whilst they continue to reap massive profits, by exploiting labour.

It is clear to us that employers want to down vary our gains and take our members back from all that they have managed to negotiate in the sector in the last two decades. We will do everything in our power to block them from succeeding in this.

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We will be meeting with them again this week from the 17th-19th of July in Pretoria for a second round of wage talks. Meanwhile, we need to go back to our members and update them in order to get a fresh mandate. We hope that when talks resume this  week, employers will engage more seriously and we can start to make progress. We are doing everything in our power to prevent unnecessary delays so that we can reach an agreement soon. We hope the employers will assist us in achieving our objective.

 

Aluta continua!

The struggle continues!

 

Issued by The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

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