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The Broadcast, Electronic Media, and Allied Workers' Union (Bemawu) is considering going on strike at the SABC, it said on Thursday.
"There is a strong feeling [among] members that we should. Remember, they were suppose to conclude these negotiations in April; they failed to do so. There is a feeling from quite a number of members that we should file a dispute," Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson said.
Salary negotiations were held last week and rescheduled for next week.
However, the SABC cancelled the meeting and did not provide any reasons.
"The letter said it has been postponed indefinitely," Du Buisson said.
Bemawu wanted a 12 percent salary increase across the board and had other proposals on benefits, such as the housing subsidy.
Du Buisson said the union went back to its members to get a mandate on Wednesday and came up with three possible courses of action.
The first was to file a dispute and strike. The second was to picket at the SABC, and the third was to get a court order forcing the SABC back into negotiations.
Bemawu was also not pleased with the way the SABC had behaved during talks last week.
"They have really spent three days in negotiations where they moved by 0.08 percent while the union moved by three percent. It seems to us that the SABC is playing games with us at this point in time," he said.
"Members are very unhappy. They are angry and urging the union to push this thing into another direction."
On Thursday, the SABC's employee relations head Shumani Tshirado said in a statement that the meeting which was to have been held from July 8 to 12 had been "cancelled until further notice".
Efforts to get further comment from Tshirado were unsuccessful.
Source : Sapa /pd/jk/th/clh
Date : 04 Jul 2013 16:37
"There is a strong feeling [among] members that we should. Remember, they were suppose to conclude these negotiations in April; they failed to do so. There is a feeling from quite a number of members that we should file a dispute," Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson said.
Salary negotiations were held last week and rescheduled for next week.
However, the SABC cancelled the meeting and did not provide any reasons.
"The letter said it has been postponed indefinitely," Du Buisson said.
Bemawu wanted a 12 percent salary increase across the board and had other proposals on benefits, such as the housing subsidy.
Du Buisson said the union went back to its members to get a mandate on Wednesday and came up with three possible courses of action.
The first was to file a dispute and strike. The second was to picket at the SABC, and the third was to get a court order forcing the SABC back into negotiations.
Bemawu was also not pleased with the way the SABC had behaved during talks last week.
"They have really spent three days in negotiations where they moved by 0.08 percent while the union moved by three percent. It seems to us that the SABC is playing games with us at this point in time," he said.
"Members are very unhappy. They are angry and urging the union to push this thing into another direction."
On Thursday, the SABC's employee relations head Shumani Tshirado said in a statement that the meeting which was to have been held from July 8 to 12 had been "cancelled until further notice".
Efforts to get further comment from Tshirado were unsuccessful.
Source : Sapa /pd/jk/th/clh
Date : 04 Jul 2013 16:37