The agreement will see employees receiving a 7% increase in 2023, and 6% in the subsequent years until April 30 2028,The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has called on workers to vote wisely in the upcoming elections. The union says it hopes the elections will bring about change in the lives of the working class.
Numsa says the country’s working class has been confronted with the continuous deepening crisis of socio-economic challenges and an economy that has placed many workers and their families further into poverty. “Numsa is very clear that in the past three decades, the South African working class and the poor of our country have gone beyond being victims and statistics of the triple crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequality. They go to bed without a plate of food to eat, not just on one day but most days and poverty and unemployment is their daily struggle and life experience. It was impossible for Numsa to keep quiet, for the union not to take a political posture on the elections.
“Political parties who have no shame in openly promoting xenophobia, and who vow to liquidate the very idea of the existence of trade unions and the very idea of a national minimum wage. They are anti-worker and union bashing champions of labour broking, casual work, and slave wages instead of a living wage. Political parties that are extremely patriarchal and have not even moved an inch in understanding the strategic importance of gender equality between men and women.
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