Eskom said to offer workers 7% increase after illegal protests

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mypetcow said:
Good thing you are confirming that inflation exists. Of course it is larger than ever. Literally everything in this country is more expensive than ever - or have you recently purchased a Coke for 25c? Of course you haven’t.

Those power plants don’t run themselves you know. No matter how unjustifiable you may think it is to pay staff a decent wage for they work the truth is that last week there was no stage 6 load shedding because the staff was….at work….working….doing their job to make sure things run smoothly (as smooth as they can given the current situation).

I’m happy you’re not in charge of decisions like this or we’d all be back in the Middle Ages.
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Speaking of paying staff a decent wage for they work I am in IT and paid by the hour, each hour I don't work I can't claim from my client so Eskom employees striking has the potential to affect my income.

Am I not also deserving of a decent wage for decent work?

Are we not equal and deserving of equal consideration?
 
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grok said:
Speaking of paying staff a decent wage for they work I am in IT and paid by the hour, each hour I don't work I can't claim from my client so Eskom employees striking has the potential to affect my income.

Am I not also deserving of a decent wage for decent work?

Are we not equal and deserving of equal consideration?
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I'm very sorry to hear about the bad working conditions that you have. Please consider talking to a labour law expert.
 
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Tman* said:
no one said anything about inflation.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1007340132461174785
- I was referring to the increased amount of staff needed to generate the same (or as we experiencing now) LESS electricity.
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Using the "average" salary is cheating a little. You see a median salary would be better here but then again the person making the graphic knew that they'd get more outrage if the just use average salary and not median salary.
Simply because a number of employees are overpaid does not mean that the majority of people on the ground working the power stations are overpaid well...I assume you didn't wilfully misunderstand.


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mypetcow said:
Using the "average" salary is cheating a little. You see a median salary would be better here but then again the person making the graphic knew that they'd get more outrage if the just use average salary and not median salary.
Simply because a number of employees are overpaid does not mean that the majority of people on the ground working the power stations are overpaid well...I assume you didn't wilfully misunderstand.


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So you know how the median salary changed in that period? It could even be a steeper slope.
 
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Unions reject Eskom wage deal and plan more protests: report
Staff Writer30 June 2022

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have rejected Eskom’s latest proposal of a 7% wage increase, and now plan to embark on further protest action against the power utility.

In a joint statement on Thursday (30 June), the unions said they were disappointed by the offer and would push for an increase in the double-digits, News24 reports.

“We demand a two digits salary increase. It has been over emphasised that so long as Eskom management is unwilling to engage on the other more than 15 demands, therefore no agreement is to be reached between Eskom management and both NUM and Numsa,” the unions said,

Members have also requested the unions to provide buses to Eskom’s Megawatt Park headquarters on Friday. The members were calling for the removal of Andre de Ruyter as chief executive, chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer and general manager for people relations Thulane Ngele.

Eskom is offering workers a 7% wage increase to end an impasse that plunged South Africa into its worst blackouts since 2019.

The offer is for a year, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. The proposed pay rise is on a sliding scale with higher earners receiving slightly less, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.

Eskom, which has R396 billion of debt and survives on government bailouts, raised its offer to break a deadlock that led the utility to cut enough power to supply four million South African homes. The stalled negotiations prompted workers to go on a rampage, torching homes of senior officials and blocking entry into power plants, stymieing electricity generation.

Eskom, which has 42,000 employees, had made an offer of an increase of as much as 5.3% before the call by unions to stay away from work. The protests prompted Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who oversees the company and other state-owned groups, to brief the media where he showed photos of the violent attacks by workers.

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The only cave in because of the violent nature of strikes. They know all too well, if they want more money, they just have to burn **** down. This country is completely stuffed with no way back.
 
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I've said it before.

Offer % Increase vs % layoffs

0% Increase vs 0% layoffs
5% Increase vs 10% layoffs
10% Increase vs 20% layoffs
15% Increase vs 40% layoffs

2 Birds, one stone.
 
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dualmeister said:
Unions reject Eskom wage deal and plan more protests: report
Staff Writer30 June 2022

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have rejected Eskom’s latest proposal of a 7% wage increase, and now plan to embark on further protest action against the power utility.

In a joint statement on Thursday (30 June), the unions said they were disappointed by the offer and would push for an increase in the double-digits, News24 reports.

“We demand a two digits salary increase. It has been over emphasised that so long as Eskom management is unwilling to engage on the other more than 15 demands, therefore no agreement is to be reached between Eskom management and both NUM and Numsa,” the unions said,

Members have also requested the unions to provide buses to Eskom’s Megawatt Park headquarters on Friday. The members were calling for the removal of Andre de Ruyter as chief executive, chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer and general manager for people relations Thulane Ngele.

Eskom is offering workers a 7% wage increase to end an impasse that plunged South Africa into its worst blackouts since 2019.

The offer is for a year, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. The proposed pay rise is on a sliding scale with higher earners receiving slightly less, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.

Eskom, which has R396 billion of debt and survives on government bailouts, raised its offer to break a deadlock that led the utility to cut enough power to supply four million South African homes. The stalled negotiations prompted workers to go on a rampage, torching homes of senior officials and blocking entry into power plants, stymieing electricity generation.

Eskom, which has 42,000 employees, had made an offer of an increase of as much as 5.3% before the call by unions to stay away from work. The protests prompted Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who oversees the company and other state-owned groups, to brief the media where he showed photos of the violent attacks by workers.

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@mypetcow good comrade dies for socialism :coffee:
 
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