{"id":82983,"date":"2013-07-25T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82983"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:37:39","slug":"telkom-strikes-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/82983-telkom-strikes-pay-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom strikes pay deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> and the Communication Workers Union (<a title=\"CWU\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/371840-Communication-Workers-Union-(CWU)\">CWU<\/a>) signed a three-year pay deal in Pretoria on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom CEO <a title=\"Sipho Maseko\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/338963-Sipho-Maseko\">Sipho Maseko<\/a> said the general salary increase would be six percent.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, effective for three years from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2016, also provided for an acceleration process to rectify salary disparities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telkom is determined to avoid unfair income differentials,&#8221; Maseko told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The two smaller Telkom unions, the SA Communications Union (Sacu) and Solidarity, were busy consulting its members about the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacu has indicated their intention to sign the agreement,&#8221; said Maseko.<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed Sacu would sign the agreement early next week.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom must cut prices, improve broadband: Minister\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/82971-telkom-must-cut-prices-improve-broadband-minister.html\"><strong>Telkom must cut prices, improve broadband: Minister<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/82637-r33-1-million-paid-in-dodgy-ict-subsidies-report.html\"><strong>R33.1 million paid in dodgy ICT subsidies: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/82499-telkom-competition-commission-settlement-confirmed.html\"><strong>Telkom Competition Commission settlement confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/82119-telkoms-big-copper-plans-more-details.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s big copper plans: more details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) signed a three-year pay deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,373,20303,279,143,109],"class_list":["post-82983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-cwu","tag-sacu","tag-sipho-maseko","tag-solidarity","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82985,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983\/revisions\/82985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}