{"id":3903,"date":"2019-11-20T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:16:47","slug":"south-african-airlines-in-crisis-mode-as-workers-strike-for-better-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/website_b1ce9d46\/south-african-airlines-in-crisis-mode-as-workers-strike-for-better-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"South African airlines in crisis mode as workers strike for better pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Lisa Vives <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unions representing more than half of South African Airways (SAA)\nworkforce called a strike last week after the airline refused to meet wage and\njob security demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unions, representing more than 3,000 workers, walked out on Nov. 15 after the state-owned airline rejected their demand for 8% raises, offering 5.9% instead. South African airways is also planning to cut 944 positions. The strike forced the cancellation of most flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the National Union of Metalworkers is engaging its members at other\nairlines and companies that service the industry on whether they should stage\nsympathy strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan indicated last week that it\nintends taking a hard line, saying South African Airlines isn\u2019t too big to\nfail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary van Staden, an analyst at NKC African Economics , commented: \u201cWhat\nbegan as a strike for higher pay at SAA has morphed into an ideological clash\nand a direct challenge to the government.\u201d The airline said the action would\ncost it 50 million rand ($3.36m) a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African airways threatened job cuts come at a time when unemployment is already close to 30 percent. Workers say they should not be left holding the bag for years of management failures and poor governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phakamile Hlubi Majola, spokeswoman for the National Union of\nMetalworkers, said they also want SAA to commit to bringing costly outsourced\nservices back in house, which are blowing a substantial hole in SAA’s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Otherwise we’ll be right back here six months from now with them\nsaying they’ve got no money,” she said, adding the unions could not move\non other demands before this one was met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month the government said it will repay SAA\u2019s outstanding\ngovernment-guaranteed debt of 9.2 billion rand ($629 million) – support that\nFinance Minister Tito Mboweni said the country could ill afford and had to come\nto an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is happening at South African airways is an example of capitalism at its worst,\u201d said Motebang Oupa Ralake, General Secretary of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers\u2019 Party. A once viable state-owned entity is deliberately being hollowed out through theft and rampant looting. This is being done to collapse the airline, so that the capitalist cronies, connected to the ANC government in the form of the Rothschild family, can benefit from its collapse, and they can buy the airline at a vastly reduced price.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are fighting against retrenchment, corruption and privatization<\/a>,\u201d said the airline workers union. \u201cWe call on all our members in these companies to join in solidarity because the changes at SAA will be affecting them too.\u00a0 The airline can and must be saved, in order to preserve jobs along the value chain,” their statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lisa Vives Unions representing more than half of South African Airways (SAA) workforce called a strike last week after the airline refused to meet wage and job security demands. The unions, representing more than 3,000 workers, walked out on Nov. 15 after the state-owned airline rejected their demand for 8% raises, offering 5.9% instead. 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