Unions in three-year wage deal with vehicle retailers, components makers
South Africa’s components makers and the retail motor industry have reached a new three-year wage agreement with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Motor Industry Staff Association.
The settlement will see wage increases at components manufacturers of 8.5% in Year 1, 8% in Year 2 and 7.5% in Year 3 of the agreement.
The agreement expires on August 31, 2019.
Increases in the rother segments of the retail sector will be set at 7% a year. However, forecourt attendants at service stations will receive a 10% increase in Year 1, 8% in Year 2 and 8% in Year 3.
The wage agreement follows a protracted negotiation process in which Numsa at first wanted a one-year wage agreement rather than a three-year agreement, while it also canvassed for the establishment of a ‘mega’ bargaining council for the motor industry.
The Retail Motor Industry Organisation did not agree with these terms.
South Africa’s vehicle manufacturers in September signed a new three-year wage deal with Numsa. The new deal sees workers receiving a 10% raise in 2016 and an 8% increase in each of the following two years.
The previous rounds of wage negotiations in the manufacturing and motor retail sectors in 2013 resulted in two protracted strikes.
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