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National Union of Mineworkers, Press Statement, 8 August 2014 NUM two-year agreement with Eskom The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) today signed a two-year wage agreement on behalf of its members with Eskom. The wage agreement makes provision for an 8,5% wage increase for workers for the next two years. The agreement shall apply from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2016 to all permanent employees employed in the Bargaining Unit at Eskom The provisions of the wage agreement also include, among others, the following adjustments: - The stand-by allowance increases by 8,5% for two years. - The parties agreed to increase the on target bonus from 10% to 12%. Housing allowance The housing allowance in year one increases from R2 000 to R2 300 per month. In year two, an increase from R2 300 to R2 600 per month will apply. Ndlela Radebe, Acting NUM Energy Sector Coordinator, said the wage agreement makes provision for further negotiations should the inflation rate rise above the agreed upon annual salary increase percentage. "All parties to the agreement accept that a protective clause, which provides for further negotiation should the inflation rate rise above 8,5% during the next two years, is built into the agreement," Radebe said. The NUM wishes to express its sincere gratitude to its members at Eskom for the manner in which they behaved during the negotiation period up until they gave us mandate to sign the agreement. The parties further agreed that all outstanding issues will be concluded within two weeks of the signing of this agreement For more information, please contact: Helen Diatile, NUM Eskom Chief Negotiator, 082 809 3270 Ndlela Radebe, NUM Acting Energy Sector Coordinator, 082 933 7610 or 071 871 5859 Frans Baleni, NUM General Secretary, 082 375 6443 Livhuwani Mammburu, Acting NUM National Spokesperson 083 809 3257 Address: 7 Rissik Street. Cnr Frederick, Johannesburg Tel: 011 377 2111 Cell: 083 809 3257 Web: www.num.org.za Twitter: @Num_Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NUM/100860023402167 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
