Labour unions accept Eskom's 7% wage increase

[2023]

Lol...another billion down the bog

Eskom says it needs to look for R1bn to fund new wage deal with workers

Unions and the company’s management signed a new agreement on Tuesday following weeks of tense negotiations.

ewn.co.za

Put it on the tax payers tab!

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

I don’t see people registering though.

I don`t see people buying solar in the Cape, but I think its is impossible to not register the system. They use aerial photos to track down and fine unregistered houses, and all installers are required to enforce registration.

 

[wingnut771]

I don`t see people buying solar in the Cape, but I think its is impossible to not register the system. They use aerial photos to track down and fine unregistered houses, and all installers are required to enforce registration.

Anyone from Cape Town here that has registered their systems? If you have, are you paying a higher rate?

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Anyone from Cape Town here that has registered their systems? If you have, are you paying a higher rate?

You do not have to ask that question, of course there will be someone here who have registered their system, and of course they pay different higher rates, it is clearly spelled out in the tariff structure documentation.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Lol...another billion down the bog

Eskom says it needs to look for R1bn to fund new wage deal with workers

Unions and the company’s management signed a new agreement on Tuesday following weeks of tense negotiations.

ewn.co.za

Simple solution

Reduce workforce to fit the bill <--- There! both future strikes and current problem solved. You are welcome

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Simple solution

Reduce workforce to fit the bill <--- There! both future strikes and current problem solved. You are welcome

That is not an option in a socialist system. Gwede says no.

 

[wingnut771]

That is not an option in a socialist system. Gwede says no.

Pravin don't you mean?

 

[wbot]

Their reward for terrorism

 

[ConfusedR]

Why the kid gloves, if they are holding the infrastructure hostage, deal with them using force if necessary.

The ANC will never use force against their criminal voters

 

[ShaunSA]

With our matches and our tyres we will liberate SA... of electricity

 

[ShaunSA]

Are you not already overpaid? MyBb said so, you people in government are rolling in cash, let alone all the tenders you get for merely being ANC voters.

1/10

 

[TheChamp]

Pravin don't you mean?

They all look the same.

 

[mojoman]

They all look the same.

Just look at the belly...

 

[The Darkness]

I don`t see people buying solar in the Cape, but I think its is impossible to not register the system. They use aerial photos to track down and fine unregistered houses, and all installers are required to enforce registration.

Registering is mandatory. No installer will put up a system, supply a COC, and then NOT register the installation. This would void your home insurance policy too, as there is a systems inspection that gets carried out during this registration process.
We're in it for ourselves, there is NO help from the government here, in fact, the opposite, which is why in my opinion one needs to put in a huge amount of solar and be nearly off-grid to justify it.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Labour unions accept Eskom's 7% wage increase

South African labour groups agreed to a wage offer from the state-owned power utility, ending an impasse over increases that triggered a week of illegal protests and deepened electricity outages.

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which generates almost all of the nation’s electricity, was scheduled to meet with the unions on Tuesday over the pay deal.

[Bloomberg]

All smoke and mirrors from the cigar lounge.

 

[porchrat]

It’s the beginning of more strikes and being held hostage by Eskom. They’ve never stopped this low before.

This isn't the beginning of the strikes. They only haven't been striking the last 3 years because they had a wage deal in place. They were striking long before that and only that wage deal got them to stop, not police etc. despite those strikes also being illegal back then.

Have you been living under a rock?

 

[Nerfherder]

Eskom offered 0%
They got 7%
Winning

Eskom has -700000% to offer so fun times ahead.

 

[The Darkness]

This isn't the beginning of the strikes. They only haven't been striking the last 3 years because they had a wage deal in place. They were striking long before that and only that wage deal got them to stop, not police etc. despite those strikes also being illegal back then.

Have you been living under a rock?

Easy. Watch how you speak to people

 

[Blackhand]

I've completely lost confidence in De Ruyter after this fiasco.

I had some confidence in him after he'd been doing a good job cleaning out the criminality in Eskom, bringing it back to being financially sustainable and wanting to onboard IPPs.

It's not the riots, strikes or loadshedding. In a cesspool like Eskom, that's to be expected when someone actually rocks the boat.
It's the lack of dismissals for the unprotected/illegal strikes and criminality, then a 7% increase to top it off.

Eskom needs a ruthless CEO who will rule it with an iron first to get it back on track.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I've completely lost confidence in De Ruyter after this fiasco.

I had some confidence in him after he'd been doing a good job cleaning out the criminality in Eskom, bringing it back to being financially sustainable and wanting to onboard IPPs.

It's not the riots, strikes or loadshedding. In a cesspool like Eskom, that's to be expected when someone actually rocks the boat.
It's the lack of dismissals for the unprotected/illegal strikes and criminality, then a 7% increase to top it off.

Eskom needs a ruthless CEO who will rule it with an iron first to get it back on track.

So I think that is a simplistic view of the situation.

Yes De Ruyter could be harder on the workers and all that, but taking that road would mean more destruction/sabotage/strikes etc. He has to think of the country as a whole in this process.

I do think you will find that some of the strikers will be disciplined and dismissed, but it will be done as quietly as possible so as to not cause further labour issues.