EDITORIAL: Numsa needs to view Comair deal as a long-haul trip
22 September 2020 - 05:00
Unsurprisingly, Comair creditors on Friday voted overwhelmingly to allow the budget airline to pull its aircraft out of the hangar, helping bring competition in the sector amid growing doubts that SAA will emerge from its own messy business rescue process.
But we should temper our expectations. The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is not behind the business rescue plan, which entails forcing workers to take a 30% pay cut and waive their rights to any income from April 2020 until the airline begins flying in December, at the latest. ..
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