Satawu wage talks deadlocked again

Wage talks for security guards have deadlocked again after negotiators failed to agree to proposals from the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. According to a media statement by the CCMA it proposed that the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union suspend its eight-week-long strike and employers suspend disciplinary measures against guards who misbehaved during the industrial action. However, on return to the process on Friday the parties confirmed that they had moved further away from each other. The CCMA said as a consequence and with great reluctance it had to acknowledge that the current process was deadlocked.