Sacca and Numsa to embark on ‘mother of all strikes’ at SAA

unprofitable airline continues to burn R500m a month despite the efforts of its new management and directors to turn it around. The government hopes to fix the airline to attract a strategic equity partner, but wants to get it on a secure financial footing first.

Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim said the unions rejected the planned job cuts at SAA, saying they are a ploy by management to make workers pull back from their wage demands. The unions will not fold arms and allow the workers’ livelihoods to be auctioned off, he said. “We are grounding the airline on Friday. That airline must not move. This strike will be an indefinite strike until these people come to the table,” Jim said.

Numsa will approach the union federation Saftu, of which it is an affiliate, to organise a strike against job cuts and privatisation, he said.

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