The two largest unions at Prasa have declared a dispute at the CCMA and are threatening industrial action after the rail operator “refused” to formally respond to demands for wage increases five times the rate of inflation.
A strike could leave millions of commuters reliant on trains for transportation in limbo and stall the recovery programme of the past year that saw the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) reopening several rail lines in Gauteng and Western Cape that were subjected to severe damage, theft and vandalism during the Covid-19 lockdown . ..
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