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Eskom and Unions in talks to end load shedding
South Africa’s state-run electricity producer and its labor unions have agreed to hold new negotiations over pay, the government said, ending protests at power plants that have caused disruptions to power supply.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan called a meeting Friday with Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd., the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the Solidarity union “to normalize relationships and normalize operations” at the utility, he said in a statement. It was agreed at the talks that Eskom’s proposed zero-percent wage increase is “off the table,” Gordhan said.
The government intervention wasn’t enough to spare South Africans from power cuts on Saturday night. Stage-two load shedding started at 5 p.m. and may last until 9 p.m., Eskom said in a statement, using a local term for rolling blackouts. The utility had said earlier that the power system would be “severely constrained” amid cold winter weather. There are four levels of cuts, with the second stage indicating a shortage of as much as 2,000 megawatts.
[Bloomberg]
South Africa’s state-run electricity producer and its labor unions have agreed to hold new negotiations over pay, the government said, ending protests at power plants that have caused disruptions to power supply.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan called a meeting Friday with Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd., the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the Solidarity union “to normalize relationships and normalize operations” at the utility, he said in a statement. It was agreed at the talks that Eskom’s proposed zero-percent wage increase is “off the table,” Gordhan said.
The government intervention wasn’t enough to spare South Africans from power cuts on Saturday night. Stage-two load shedding started at 5 p.m. and may last until 9 p.m., Eskom said in a statement, using a local term for rolling blackouts. The utility had said earlier that the power system would be “severely constrained” amid cold winter weather. There are four levels of cuts, with the second stage indicating a shortage of as much as 2,000 megawatts.
[Bloomberg]
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