No end in sight for bus strike
Imogen Vollenhoven
25 April 2013
Furthermore he added that it means that the strike continuous today and hopefully talks can resume again.
Talks between Golden Arrow Bus
Service employers and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union
deadlocked on Wednesday.
In order to try and resolve the dispute the
two parties met at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration,
with no success.
Golden Arrow Spokesperson John
Dammert explains that SATAWU and the transport omnibus workers union dropped
their 18 percent wage demand to a 13 percent while the employers upped their
6.5 percent offer to an eight percent.
Dammert said that they unfortunately
no resolution was met and talks was suspended.
Furthermore he added that it means that the strike continuous today and hopefully talks can resume again.
Meanwhile other modes of transport
have been approached to join the strike.
Bus drivers are demanding an 18
percent wage increase, while employers upped their offer to eight percent.
Golden Arrow Spokesperson John
Dammert said that they know that a call has been made to train drivers and long
distance bus drivers to also join the strike, however no finality has been reached
in that regard as yet.
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