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Engineering bargaining council’s touch resolves 300 000 metalworkers’ inflation wage rises
June 26, 2008 - 12:12 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 82
Source: NUMSA |
| In a landmark agreement concluded by Metal Engineering Industry Bargaining Council chief executive officer Alistair Smith, on behalf of all parties, employers agreed to honour their moral and ethical responsibility and up their offer in response to the drastic rise in consumer price index on food, interest rates and fuel price increases.
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PETROL STATION WORKERS UNDER ATTACK
June 24, 2008 - 4:10 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 43
Source: NUMSA |
| NUMSA strongly condemns the unnecessary, brutal killing of Armanda Muhaswa, a petrol attendant at a petrol station in Zola, Soweto, at the weekend for unpaid petrol.
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Numsa warily welcome energy regulator’s total rejection of Eskom 60% tariff hikes
June 19, 2008 - 5:05 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 59
Source: NUMSA |
| Numsa is extremely apprehensive of the total 27% power hikes in the coming year for being at a particularly volatile moment when month- on- month inflation (CPIX) is expected to increase beyond 15% in December, 2008. These increases are expected on the back of a weaker currency and higher oil prices, which will completely erode any improvements expected to be made in the steel, metal and engineering industry negotiations for above inflation-level increases. |
Hatred of African aliens and third force activities have rocked residential areas and workplaces
May 19, 2008 - 8:51 AM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 251
Source: NUMSA |
| And the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) general secretary Silumko Nondwangu has called on the union’s local and regional structures to convene special meetings today (Monday) as xenophobic attacks on African immigrants in Alexandra, Diepsloot, Thokoza, Tembisa, Reiger Park and Johannesburg City Centre claimed 10 lives in the inferno of fire, hundreds injured and left thousands of foreigners destitute.
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A landmark wage agreement signed with giant steel producer
May 19, 2008 - 8:29 AM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 293
Source: NUMSA |
| It is a historic agreement for it has established provisions to address among others, the critical shortage of skilled artisans by ensuring additional improvements on benefits, development and keeping qualified artisans. The increases will be effective from the end of June, 2008.
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Metalworkers dig out millions of cash stacks in liquidated firm
May 7, 2008 - 1:05 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 215
Source: N/A |
| Almost 500 employees of liquidated ATS Alloy Wheels South Africa stand to get more than R21 million after a protracted dispute over the application for execution of winding up order of the Pretoria’s Babelegi-based alloy wheels manufacturer. |
Numsa found evidence of Assmang bosses complicity to furnace blast
April 22, 2008 - 5:33 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 273
Source: NUMSA |
| The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has unearthed evidence of management complicity and flouting of regulations after it commissioned investigation by an independent expert to establish the cause of the furnace 6 explosion at Assmang in Cato Ridge, Pietermaritzburg on February 21, 2008.
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Metal Engineering workers are set to stage strikes over inflation increases
April 16, 2008 - 4:18 PM | Category: Press Statements
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Views: 421
Source: NUMSA |
| Numsa has impelled the employer federation Steel Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) to reconsider entering into further wage negotiations for increases above agreement settlement levels because salary increases for July 1, 2008 were below inflation.
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