DUT’s academic year delayed yet again due to strike over salaries
After more than a month‚ the beleaguered Durban University of Technology (DUT) is still no closer to reaching an agreement with striking staff over salary increments — and it has‚ again‚ been forced to delay the start of the academic year. In a last-ditch attempt to resolve the protracted impasse with unions‚ the university turned to the Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) this week. The academic year was due to start on Monday‚ but the breakdown in negotiations means the start of lectures is being pushed to February 12. Management is offering a 6.5% increase in basic salary and a 6.5% housing allowance‚ without a once-off bonus, but striking unions are demanding an 8% increase and a R350 increase in the housing allowance. Late on Thursday, the university released a statement saying negotiations remained deadlocked and that lectures would start on Tuesday February 13. "The DUT is disappointed to confirm that after four days of mediation by the CCMA‚ the sal...
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