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Critical time for public sector wage talks Theto Mahlakoana, Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, 8 March 2015 The government and unions will meet on Monday in a bid to break the logjam in public sector wage talks, in what has been described by participants as a "do or die" bid to find a deal before the end of this month. Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane are due to meet with COSATU President Sdumo Dlamini and leader of negotiations for the COSATU bloc at the council, South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) general secretary, Mugwena Maluleke. The meeting is meant to try and rescue the talks from the brink of collapse after public sector unions affiliated to COSATU threatened to act "decisively" in light of government's adjustment of its initial offer of 5.8 percent down to 4.8 percent in line with the new projected CPI figures. Sadtu, National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu), Police and Prisons union (Popcru), nursing union Denosa, the SA Medical Association (Sama), State and Allied Workers' Union (Sasawu) and Public and Allied Workers' Union (Pawusa) have accused Government of negotiating in bad faith. DPSA spokesperson Brent Simons has disputed the allegation, saying government had not revised any of its conditions tabled at the council. "Unions are 100% aware that Government's offer is directly related to the CPI and an additional agreed percentage point/s," he added. Labour unions in the council, including the Independent Labour Caucus, have despite the lowering of government's offer decreased their own wage demand to 10 percent, moving 5 points down. However, Independent Media understands the ministers will attempt to convince the unions to drop the figure even further in line with a Cabinet-approved wage hike proposal. Sources from both sides, who did not want to be identified, said parties would probably end up agreeing on 7 or 7.5 percent increases. From: http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/critical-time-for-public-sector-wage-talk s-1.1828650#.VPzNp_mUeD8 -- -- 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.
