LABOUR
Solidarity accepts 7.5% wage deal with Eskom
The union says it accepted the deal to help SA’s economy by keeping the lights on
Solidarity trade union said on Thursday it had accepted the latest three-year wage offer from struggling state-run power firm Eskom, but the other two bigger unions demanding pay hikes were yet to respond. Eskom is on a cost-cutting drive as it tries to emerge from a financial crisis and has been grappling with labour unrest for weeks after it initially refused to raise salaries. It caved in to union demands for higher pay after protesting workers forced some of its generating units to be switched off, leading to power outages in the continent’s most industrialised economy. Solidarity accepted a salary increase of 7.5% this year and 7% next year and the year after, plus an inflation-linked increase in housing allowances and a one-off cash payment of R5,000, the union, which represents mostly white skilled workers, said in a statement. Unreliable power "For all our members across SA the right thing to do now would be to help prevent the economy from being hampered by an unreliable po...
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