By Mikhaila Crowie
9 April 2009
The Road Freight Employers’ Association says the transport workers’ strike will continue indefinitely even though their union and employers have agreed on wage hikes.
RFEA’s Magretia Brown says the agreement includes an 11-percent across the board increase for all employees in the unit covered by the bargaining council.
She said the reason there was no formal agreement yet was the insistence by the Transport Workers' Union that the increases apply to people outside the bargaining unit.
It is reported from Durban that a truck driver has died in an incident believed to be related to the strike.
A huge rock was thrown at 59-year-old Morgan Chetty’s truck while he was driving on the N3 highway.
The rock hit him on the head.
Satawu has denied that the incident was related to the strike.
A truck driver was also seriously injured in Port Elizabeth when alleged strikers stoned and petrol-bombed his vehicle.
Acts of intimidation has also occurred in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Cape Town.
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