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BusinessDay.gif Wage talks impasse goes back to grass roots Karl Gernetzky, Business Day, Johannesburg, 2 April 2015 Public-sector unions aligned to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will consult members on a way forward after being told by state negotiators they had "exhausted their mandate" for salary increases, before declaring a dispute. The previous three-year wage agreement covering about 1.3-million public servants expired on Wednesday. JMC4.jpg The COSATU bloc While any increase will be backdated, COSATU negotiators said on Wednesday the federation's members would in the interim face economic pressures, hence their request for a double-digit pay hike. The public sector unions were "hopeful" that a period of conciliation would end the impasse, but were mindful of the government "treating these negotiations with an unprecedented level of arrogance", National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union general secretary Bereng Soke said on Wednesday. Bereng Soke, NEHAWU.jpg The government declared a dispute with organised labour on Friday after six months of wage negotiations. This has set in motion a period of conciliation by an independent party. The Public Sector Co-ordinating Bargaining Council constitution states that this mediation must conclude within a month of the receipt of a referral, which would mean conciliation until the end of this month. Among the government's offers is a three-year agreement for a 5.8% rise in the first year, followed by two years of inflation-plus-0.5% increases, but unions are asking for a 10% wage deal in one year. From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2015/04/02/wage-talks-impasse-goes-b ack-to-grass-roots -- -- 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.
