Labour Minister extends metals collective bargaining agreement
The decision by the Minister of Labour to gazette and extend the 2011/2014 Main Agreement to all parties and nonparties in the metals industry, is a “resounding victory” for centralised collective bargaining in the industry, the Steel Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) said in a statement.
The settlement agreement was entered into between the Department of Labour and Seifsa on behalf of the 27 federated employer associations and the industry’s six trade unions, and enabled parties who represented the majority of employers and employees in industry to extend their agreements to nonparties.
This agreement was challenged by the National Employers’ Association of South Africa and the Plastics Converters’ Association of South Africa.
“This extension vindicates a long-held view that agreements entered into between the majority of contesting parties, at considerable cost and power-play, must, through statute, become the basis on which employers throughout industry conduct their businesses,” Seifsa said on Friday.
Seifsa further interpreted the decision as a vote of confidence in its collective bargaining processes and an important indication that government would continue to support the extension of collective agreements to minority parties who had exercised their right not to participate in the process.
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