Automotive strike continues as Numsa considers Ameo offer
A week-long nationwide strike in the automotive sector was set to continue into its second week as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) mulled its members’ reactions to the new undisclosed wage offer from the Automobile Manufacturers Employers’ Organisation (Ameo).
Ameo last week tabled the “most favourable proposal ever made in the history of collective bargaining” in an effort to end a strike that was said to be costing the industry R600-million in lost production a day.
Over 30 000 workers at Nissan, BMW, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, which all manufactured vehicles in South Africa for the local and export markets, downed tools last week as wage negotiations came to an impasse.
Newswire Reuters reported last week that labour had lowered its initial demand for a 20% increase to 14%, but that car manufactures were only prepared to offer 6% during negotiations.
Numsa, which had over the course of the weekend relayed the latest undisclosed offer to its members countrywide through general meetings across all major plants in Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London, would convene a special autosector national shop stewards council in Johannesburg on Tuesday to consolidate a way forward, national spokesperson Castro Ngobese said on Monday.
Further, the union would hold a special national executive committee meeting on Wednesday to make a final decision on whether or not to continue with the strike.
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