Business Report.jpg Public sector unions sign new wage deal Theto Mahlakoana, IOL, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015 COSATU-aligned public sector unions have signed a new wage agreement with the state, reinstating the 7-percent wage agreement that they had withdrawn from. The unions met with the Department of Public Service and Administration's acting minister, Nathi Mthethwa, until the early hours of Friday morning, coming out with an agreement that failed to attract support from all unions. Independent unions, organised under the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC), refused to sign the deal, which included the controversial removal of a clause from the 2012 agreement. But more importantly, the new agreement reinstated the 7-percent wage increase that government had reduced to 6.4 percent in order to recover owed monies from workers. This after the state over-projected inflation and overpaid public servants last year. COSATU and government voted to delete the clause. The clause stipulates that if the employer over-projects inflation and overpays workers, the debt would be recovered the following year. And if they underpaid workers, the difference would also be paid in the same manner. The ILC has lambasted the move which they said would work against all their efforts. "I don't think people have looked at the bigger picture. This will be to our disadvantage, if we don't have a means of controlling it, we will always be on the disadvantaged side," said the ILC's Basil Manuel. The employer was just glad the protracted dispute had ended amicably, with a promise to pay workers the 0.6-percent difference which had been deducted from their June salaries. COSATU unions would hold a press briefing on Friday morning to explain how they got to the deal, while some from within the federation have already told Independent Media that the deal was mainly political. Labour Bureau From: <http://www.iol.co.za/business/news/public-sector-unions-sign-new-wage-deal- 1.1876777#.VY0-dfmqqko> http://www.iol.co.za/business/news/public-sector-unions-sign-new-wage-deal-1 .1876777#.VY0-dfmqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
