Gordhan asks Solidarity for list of engineers that can fix Eskom

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Message received — Gordhan accepts Solidarity's offer to help bring back engineers to fix Eskom

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has written to Solidarity asking the labour union to provide a list of engineers and other workers that can assist with Eskom's skills shortage.

Gordhan's plea comes after Solidarity chief executive Dirk Hermann sent a letter to the minister on 25 May 2022 in which he reiterated the union's past offers to help provide expertise to the utility to fix a lack of skills at its power stations.
 
Hold up... You fired skilled staff because they had the wrong skin color and now you beg them to come back to fix the problems to what... just fire them again once everything is fixed? You know the old saying, fool me once...
 
A positive move in the right direction.
But FFS please see it through, and don't make it all about BEE.
 
WAslayer said:
Is this why there are heatwaves across Europe..??!!! The ANC asking for help, must be a satire news article...
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No. Heatwave is actually a result of all the hot air coming from down south, way south. Possibly from the Black Industrialists and Exporters meetings going on
 
Metal workers union will probably not allow this.
 
Not often we see this government do the right thing.
 
Solidarity should set up a contracting company that employs the skilled staff willing to help, and then contract out to Eskom with low margins/overheads to allow for legal, and HR.

If these guys are employed directly by Eskom, they might be subjected to the same BS they experienced which resulted in them leaving. Heck, it could be even worse if the criminals within Eskom want them gone to maintain the status quo.

Having a separate entity with its own legal and HR dept means they are less likely to get shafted for racial reasons and know they can safely do what they need to with the backing of an independent legal team.

I'm sure if the ANC takes umbridge with this approach, Solidarity can arrange Cuban citizenship for the workers, then "re-import" them to contract to Eskom because "of the lack of local skills required".
 
ShaunSA said:
If anyone thinks Jamnadas actually means this...

I have a load of bridges to sell you :cool:
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They might just be desperate enough. Elections incoming. They need to be seen as doing sómething.
 
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