ALERT: Gautrain employees begin wage strike today
JOURG – Staff are demanding a 10 per cent salary increase and a R20 000 incentive bonus, among other things.
Gautrain employees who are a part of the United National Transport Union are striking from today, 30 July.
Striking workers have been preventing buses from exiting the depot and, as such, buses scheduled to service the airport service as well as Centurion, Sandton and Park stations have been delayed.
So this is how it'll be if people stopped using the Gautrain!! The traffic is a mess 😢#GautrainStrike
— Mbuduma.🐃 (@SiPhZz) July 30, 2018
— Gautrain (@TheGautrain) July 29, 2018
According to the union, members voted to participate in a mass strike during a mass meeting on 23 July. The union is demanding a 10 per cent salary increase‚ a housing allowance of R1 600‚ a transport allowance of R800‚ night shift to be increased by 10 per cent and a R20 000 incentive bonus for all employees.
The operator of Gautrain, Bombela, has offered an 8,5 per cent increase across the board and no incentive bonus.
The union said that the decision to embark on a strike comes after the union’s acting general secretary, Neels Haasbroket and deputy general secretary Pieter Greyling were issued with a certificate of non-resolution of the wage dispute by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
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