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Eskom contractors fire over 1000 workers over Medupi illegal strike SAPA, The Times, Johannesburg, 27 March 2015 Eskom contractors have fired over 1000 workers for taking part in an illegal strike at the Medupi power station in Lephalale, Limpopo, the power utility said on Friday. "The workers were fired for embarking on an illegal strike on Wednesday. Over 3000 employees took part in the strike, 1000 of them were dismissed as they had previous records against them," said spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. "The rest were issued with written warnings by the contractors." [They had demanded termination bonuses.] Phasiwe said Eskom would meet the contractors to determine whether they planned to fill the positions or implement extra shifts at the power station. On March 2, Eskom announced that Medupi's unit six produced power for the first time. "Within the next three months, South Africa will see Medupi unit six's full potential of 794MW being fed into the South African national grid," suspended Eskom chief executive Matshediso Matona said at the time. More at: http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2015/03/27/eskom-contractors-fire-over-1000 -workers-over-medupi-illegal-strike -- -- 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.
