Call for an end to the bus drivers` strike

Mluleki Mrwebi
09 May 2013

On Wednesday the Bargaining Council between the South African Bus Employers Association and the unions are still deciding if they will accept the employer's wage hike offer of a 9% increase. 

On Wednesday the South African Communist Party says it supports Satawu in their struggle for better life of the working class. 

Satawu's Vincent Masoga said the union today is meeting with the members to discuss the offer that has been given by the employers and then a decision would be taken from there.

Meanwhile the African Christian Democratic Party in the Western Cape has called on unions and employers at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration to speedily resolve the bus drivers strike. 

ACDP’s Provincial Spokesperson Ferlon Christian said the strike also impacts negatively on productivity at work due to high levels of absenteeism and late coming. 

Christian said government need to intervene in this metter because at the end of the day an agreement needs to reached between the employers and employees.