Public workers threaten to withdraw from wage deal
02 June 2015 - 18:37
A deadlock threatens to collapse a wage deal between public sector union and the government after an unexpected clause was introduced by government. South Africa's public sector unions on Tuesday threatened to abandon a recent wage hike deal after the government said it would raise salaries by 6.4 percent for the first of a three-year deal and not 7 percent agreed last month."Failure to implement the 7 percent as agreed will leave labour with no option but to withdraw from the entire agreement," the unions said in a statement...
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