SAA says it can't survive current strike

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SAA says it can't survive current strike

The strike at SAA will result in the downfall of the entire airline, according to acting chair Thandeka Mgoduso.

The Sunday Times reports that SAA is currently surviving on the goodwill of its lenders and could struggle to pay salaries at the end of the month due to a lack of income caused by the strike.
 
This is exactly the opportunity the government needs to sit back quietly, keep their nose clean and let SAA implode and die on its own:

“The employees that are on strike are the ones that are going to cause SAA to close.”
 
Quite disingenuous for her to say that the employees are the one who are going to cause SA to close when it was the government's inefficiency in appointing unqualified people to run the airline that caused this situation.

I am in no way supporting the unions but they do have a point, the problem is that no one party is going to come out of this unscathed.

I feel for the employees but not the powers that be at SAA.
 
Dups! said:
Quite disingenuous for her to say that the employees are the one who are going to cause SA to close when it was the government's inefficiency in appointing unqualified people to run the airline that caused this situation.

I am in no way supporting the unions but they do have a point, the problem is that no one party is going to come out of this unscathed.

I feel for the employees but not the powers that be at SAA.
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While I agree with you, at this stage, it will be the striking employees who will become the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think we can all agree corruption and cadre deployment are responsible for the billions in losses at SAA, but compare this whole thing to a private company: if the employee's are told the business is in financial distress and jobs may be lost, would private sector employees be stupid enough to then strike? No, because private sector employee's would have the logic to understand that their striking would increase their risk of retrenchment exponentially!

Public sector employees have been made to think that their demands will always be met by the government's public purse. This needs to now stop and the unions need to be shown they are not in charge.
 
Further, this is the precursor to the Eskom showdown. If government stands firm on SAA and doesn't budge, then they will have the power they need to then start cutting jobs at Eskom because Eskom is going to be a nightmare as electricity is the union's leverage. At SAA they only have aircraft grounding as leverage and there are opposition airlines to take up the slack
 
Craig said:
That old saying of cutting off your own nose to spite your face comes to mind.
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Similarly, cutting off the hand that feeds you.

Time to fail. If they do, it sends a strong message to unions and other SOEs that they will see their butts if they do not work together toward a common good.
 
FlashSA said:
While I agree with you, at this stage, it will be the striking employees who will become the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think we can all agree corruption and cadre deployment are responsible for the billions in losses at SAA, but compare this whole thing to a private company: if the employee's are told the business is in financial distress and jobs may be lost, would private sector employees be stupid enough to then strike? No, because private sector employee's would have the logic to understand that their striking would increase their risk of retrenchment exponentially!

Public sector employees have been made to think that their demands will always be met by the government's public purse. This needs to now stop and the unions need to be shown they are not in charge.
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I am with you, but with the private sector employer, chances of them screwing up like this and handing a large chunk of ammunition to the unions is next to nothing.

The union is clutching at the mess created by the government. For me, that is the major problem that is causing this huge mess.
 
Mgoduso said that the striking employees must “carry on their consciences” that they are responsible for the death of the state-owned airline.
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Get a load of this fcking guy
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The Afrikaans saying: "Flieg in jou moer in" has been waiting years for this moment.
Also what people did not learn as children, must be experienced as adults: "Killing the golden goose."
Lets see the latest unemployment stats.
And 20% of an +-38 million Population is not a small increase to 29% of a 56 million population ....20 % to 29%,
but then mathematics and facts are soooo colonial.
Will also be interesting to see how much union monies are left/ available to the rank and file members and has not been "redeployed" by the leaders.
 
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