Delays at Medupi as strike enters 6th week

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Delays at Medupi as strike enters 6th week

Workers have been on strike at Medupi power station in Limpopo for nearly six weeks, Eskom’s media desk said on Wednesday.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Why have they not been fired and arrested yet?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Why have they not been fired and arrested yet?

That's too soft on them.

Forcefeed them lead pills until they get the message.

 

[ellyally]

Why have they not been fired and arrested yet?

If I remember correctly this bunch were fired a few months back, then forced to be rehired by other strikers, so, although they have been rehired, they refuse to work until they get their 'performance bonuses' for getting unit 6 online 4 years later than originally scheduled.

I'm betting though they still getting free meals

 

[ProfA]

Yeah.....free food for them because all other businesses do it LMAO.

 

[sand_man]

Union bosses should be charged with treason for inciting an illegal and unprotected strike!! Bloody disgrace!! Unions are steering this country to bankruptcy and ruin!! Sons of b itches!!! I fcking hate unions!!

EDIT: A read a stat somewhere the other day suggesting that load shedding has cost SA R300bn and 1 million jobs!! WTF??!!!!! But strike why don't you, you fcking morons!!! We will all be living in squatter camps one of these days!!!

 

[ToxicBunny]

Union bosses should be charged with treason for inciting an illegal and unprotected strike!! Bloody disgrace!! Unions are steering this country to bankruptcy and ruin!! Sons of b itches!!! I fcking hate unions!!

EDIT: A read a stat somewhere the other day suggesting that load shedding has cost SA R300bn and 1 million jobs!! WTF??!!!!! But strike why don't you, you fcking morons!!! We will all be living in squatter camps one of these days!!!

If you ask me, those numbers are conservative.. and don't take into account lost investment due to the uncertain power situation.

Also, I completely agree on hating the Unions.... They actually need to be entirely disbanded in their current state.

 

[Kosmik]

Army, tents behind fences for those wanting to work with incentives for pay.

 

[sand_man]

If you ask me, those numbers are conservative.. and don't take into account lost investment due to the uncertain power situation.

Also, I completely agree on hating the Unions.... They actually need to be entirely disbanded in their current state.

Agreed!! Very difficult to measure the accumulative effects!!

Sad reality is we averted a bloody civil war on our way to a democracy but the economic civil war Unions are waging is just as damaging!!! Fckers should all be shot!! GEESUS, I'm so pissed off right now...

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

I don't mind strike action in a free market, where the market will dictate the correct course of action. Unfortunately that concept is too colonial for this country...

 

[sand_man]

I don't mind strike action in a free market, where the market will dictate the correct course of action. Unfortunately that concept is too colonial for this country...

Australian bus company had a strike a while back. Instead of burning buses, looting businesses and rioting the striking bus conductors protested by allowing commuting passengers on the bus for free. Not sure what the outcome was but that's how the educated and civilized protest.

 

[furpile]

The striking employees belonging to contractors on the Medupi Power Station Project have not heeded the call to return to work since the unprotected industrial action that took place on March 25, 2015, despite a court interdict as well as ultimatums issued in this regard…

That is the problem with ultimatums, if you don't follow through with your threat they lose their power of intimidation. After ignoring the court interdict they should have been fired (again), and any sympathy strikers should also be fired. I'm sure it would be cheaper for Eskom to hire mercenaries, sorry security, to protect those willing to work.

 

[agel]

So business as usual eh?

 

[Draganchor]

If you ask me, those numbers are conservative.. and don't take into account lost investment due to the uncertain power situation.

Also, I completely agree on hating the Unions.... They actually need to be entirely disbanded in their current state.

http://businesstech.co.za/news/gene...outs-cost-south-africa-r80-billion-per-month/

Agreed, these number do not include FDI nor loss of GDP

 

[NiTeD]

Why don't we send in the army & prisoners to do the work, we're already feeding them daily for doing nothing?

 

[MickeyD]

Updates?

Heard that they are still striking.

 

[Creag]

Why have they not been fired and arrested yet?

I posed this on Twitter. Some stuff righteous eejit reckoned "we have laws to be followed in this country". Fire the whole lot of them and import people who are permitted to work. Pay them accordingly and see them get the job done in a third of the time our lazy good for nothing sods will do it.

Updates?

Heard that they are still striking.

Nothing I have heard suggests that they're working again. In a Financial Mail article I was reading earlier today, it cured that Exxaro had planned to have coal to supply Eskom in 2012 (which was according to plan / agreement). Eskom have advised parliament they expect to be at full capacity +/- 2020. And I reckon that assumes that striking workers doesn't hold things up too much longer.

Nothing like these lazy scum-buckets holding the economy of the country to ransom.