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SAA strike costing R52 million a day and with a bankruptcy record it could mean the end of the entity

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More than 3000 workers affiliated with Numsa and Sacca downed tools at SAA on Friday over a wage dispute and plans to cut more than 900 jobs, costing the airline about R52 million a day.

The interim chief financial officer of SAA Deon Fredericks, said the strike was pushing the struggling airline to unsustainable levels. “If this strike continues, we are running the risk of putting SAA out of business,” Fredericks said.

Even though they are working with Mango Airlines to accommodate as many customers travelling on domestic services as possible and refunding passengers their flights or travel with other airlines.

SAA is facing a crippling onslaught by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca). The national air-carrier is threatening the unions with legal action if they fail to retract comments that the safety of passengers cannot be guaranteed.

Over the weekend, Numsa said anyone flying with SAA
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Death bells are ringing for SAA due to impending strike

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The impending strike at SAA by the SA Cabin Staff Association and Numsa could mean the end of the airline. In the meantime, the Pilot Association announced that they supported the idea and that the state entity’s overall top management should be replaced. Furthermore, they threatened to act if a Chief Executive with no experience aviation experience and knowledge are appointed.

The imminent strike comes after SAA announced that a restructuring will take place to make the entity more cost effective. The SAA’s enormous debt burden means that it has no choice but to lay off about 1,000 staff members, but the unions threaten to call a large-scale strike if retrenchments continue.

Persons who will use SAA’s services on Friday 15 November 2019 were advised to make alternative arrangements as all flights for Friday and Saturday were canceled considering the impending strike.

The SAA is technically bankrupt, and if a strike is now called, it will ring the death bells.
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‘Mother of all strikes’ ready to paralyze SAA as union hints at ‘total shutdown’ if national carrier cuts a fifth of staff

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Numsa and Sacca already have a strike certificate as they accuse management of threatening them with retrenchments and call for the SAA board to be scrapped. As if their financial dire straits and the plan that they would have to retrench about 900 people were not enough, the national carrier South African Airways (SAA) is..
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Air travellers in SA – Bring your own food, union says, as strike threatens airport catering services

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Air travellers in South Africa have been warned to pack lunch boxes as there will be no food or catering services on several airlines as workers are expected to embark on a strike on Monday.

This as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) warned on Sunday that there would be no food or catering services on several airlines and in airport lounges due to threatened strike action.

“The strike will affect OR Tambo airport, Cape Town international and King Shaka in Durban. We advise that if you intend to fly on certain airlines tomorrow [Monday] please pack a ‘skhaftin’ [lunch box] because there will no food or catering on the flight,” said Numsa spokesperson, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola.

Air Chefs is a subsidiary of SAA.

Airline spokesman Tlali Tlali confirmed a notice to strike had been received, but said contingency plans were in place to ensure there was “minimal to no impact” on operations.

Air Chefs has gone to court to interdict the stri
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SAA pilots willing to strike to ‘save’ national airline – will be a first in its 80-year existence

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SAA pilots said on Thursday they were willing to go on strike, if necessary, unless “critical operational and technical deficiencies” were addressed. The Pilots Association has begun the process of recruiting among its members to determine how they think about the possibility of strikes. SAA has a history that its pilots will not go on strike, and to date they will only consider it as a last possibility. This possible strike will be a first in its 80-year existence.

The investigation and poll started by an independent service provider asked each pilot what they thought about a possible strike and the need to turn around in the struggling airline. Of the 635 SAA pilots, 516 (81%) participated in the survey, and 91% believe that the management team is pathetic. About 96% are in favor of having pressure to improve the shipping company’s conditions.

“It needs to be understood that the decision to embark on industrial action is not one that the pilots of SAA will
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Planned mass strike in banking sector blocked after interdict was brought to stop between 30,000 and 40,000 workers striking

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Trade union Sasbo and its trade union, Cosatu, are not allowed to continue their planned mass strike in the banking sector on Friday.

Various reports were doing the rounds as to what and when the bank staff would strike and speculate on what their effects would be on the country and its people. Economists have pointed out that this country, which is crippled by its heavy debt burden, cannot afford such a strike and that strikes will not change banks’ decisions to lay off staff.

In the end, the banks were given an interdict which states that the strike will be unprotected but also prohibited as an illegal act. Cosatu trade union, as well as other trade unions such as Sasbo, were called to trial by the court and experts say the unions that have no idea of economic realities were stopped in the right time and in the right way.

Judge Hilary Rabkin-Naicker granted an interdict against the strike in the Labor Court on Thursday.

“Any strike action by Cosatu or Sas
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SA warned to withdraw enough money ahead of banking strike on Friday

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Sasbo’s Joe Kokela said there won’t be money in many ATMs across the country on Friday. South Africans have been warned to withdraw enough money ahead of the nationwide strike in the banking sector on Friday as ATMs and banking services will be shut down.

The country’s biggest financial union Sasbo said it would bring the industry to a standstill when it protests retrenchments.

Earlier this year, Standard Bank closed 91 branches, affecting hundreds of jobs.

Absa also announced jobs would be at risk because of its restructuring processes.

Over 40,000 finance sector employees are expected to take part in the strike.

Sasbo’s Joe Kokela said there won’t be money in many ATMs across the country on Friday.

“ATMs are mended and programmed by our members so if our members are not at work then there will be no service produced.”

Kokela also had other advice for South Africans.

“If you’re travelling make sure you have enough petrol becau
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Kruger National Park a world-renowned tourist attraction, could be brought to a standstill by disgruntled workers over unresolved wage disputes

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Hundreds of SANParks workers are planning a second strike over unresolved wage disputes, not only at the Kruger Gate, but also nationwide, on September 20,2019.

The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers’ (Nupsaw) spokesman, Kagiso Makoe, said the union would embark on a national shutdown of SANParks facilities – on behalf of SANParks employees – and that they will be joined by the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa), which is the majority trade union at SANParks.

Makoe confirmed that they requested a salary adjustment of 11,5 per cent. He said this is market-related, and they also want to standardise working hours to 40 hours per week, and 160 hours per month.

He confirmed that the planned strike will involve rangers, field workers, administrators and cleaners at SANParks. Earlier this year workers embarked on a similar strike following wage disputes.

Negotiations at CCMA shortly after reached no agr
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Free State municipal building torched by illegal protectors, regarding lack of service delivery

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A municipal building was set alight in the Boshof area in the Tokologo Local Municipality in the Free State, just a few days after residents of Seretse Township near Boshof embarked on an illegal protest against the municipality on Wednesday.

Police spokesperson, Thabo Covane, tells OFM News the disgruntled residents were warned by the Public Order Police that the strike was illegal, adding the police nonetheless still escorted these residents to their destination.

Covane says during this some of these residents blocked the main road, and 26 of them – including the leader of the protest – were arrested but were later let off on a warning. He says the police have since opened a case of public violence regarding the protest and the burning of the municipal workshop in Boshof.

Covane adds residents broke into at least eight local businesses, and that police were deployed to monitor the situation. Covane says according to information the
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Violent actions by groups of striking AMCU members are causing havoc and mayhem at Sibanye-Stillwater

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Sibanye-Stillwater advises that violent actions by groups of striking AMCU members close to its Beatrix operations in the Free State province, have continued.

In the early hours of the morning on 11 December 2018, various altercations between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and large groups of AMCU members resulted in a
number of employees being injured.

Several employees are receiving medical treatment, with one sadly in a critical condition.

These incidents took place outside of demarcated picketing areas and in clear contravention of the interdict obtained by Sibanye-Stillwater from the Labour Court on 22 November 2018, the picketing rules which were established by the CCMA on 29 November 2018 as well as the subsequent order by the Labour Court on 5 December 2018.

The situation at the Beatrix operations in particular, remains tense, with striking workers continuing to intimidate non-striking workers, cause damage Sibanye
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