Transnet strike set to continue while Metrorail customers will have to wait

By Khanyisa Tabata
20 May 2010


Operations at Transet are set to resume tomorrow after a strike lasting more than two weeks, but Metrorail trains might still be on hold.
Negotiations into the early hours of the morning are to be taken to union members today before a formal agreement is signed later this afternoon.

Labour originally demanded a 15-percent across the board pay increase.

Satawu president Ezrom Mabyana says the latest deal now sees an 11-percent increase, with a one-off payment of one-thousand-Rand to about 50-thousand Transnet employees.

Meanwhile Metrorail unions have rejected a 10-percent wage increase from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa.

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