Striking security guards and industry employers were on the brink of signing a wage deal to end the three-month strike early on Tuesday morning, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports.
Talks were still in progress shortly before 6am as the parties worked through the night in deliberations around talks mediated by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in Parktown, Johannesburg.
”We are still in deliberations,” Jackson Simon, the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union’s (Satawu) national co-ordinator for the security industry told South African Press Association.
The radio report added that the latest talks reportedly centred around an additional 0,25% increase for the past year.
Satawu and the Transport and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa set an 11% increase as their goal this year against the 8,3% average guards from other unions agreed on, and have been on strike since March 23.
So far, meetings at the CCMA have seen the pay offer rise to a three-year deal with a 9,25% pay hike in the first year, 7,25% in the second year and 7% in the third year. – Sapa