{"id":1687442,"date":"2022-10-13T04:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687442"},"modified":"2022-10-13T04:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:05:36","slug":"s-african-unions-reject-transnets-revised-wage-offer-continue-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/s-african-unions-reject-transnets-revised-wage-offer-continue-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African unions reject Transnet\u2019s revised wage offer, continue strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fs-african-unions-reject-transnets-revised-wage-offer-continue-strike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     South African rail freight and port workers have rejected logistics firm Transnet\u2019s revised pay offer and vowed to continue a strike that started last week, a union leader said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Transnet, which operates South Africa\u2019s rail freight and ports, said on Tuesday it had raised its wage offer to 4.5% from 3-4% previously, with additional 5.3% annual increases over the next two years. It also offered a 4.5% increase in medical insurance allowances this year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>But the United National Transport Union (UNTU), one of the two unions at Transnet along with the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), said workers had rejected the latest offer and would remain on strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUNTU has rejected this offer and so has SATAWU. We have indicated to Transnet that they are not being responsible and reasonable,\u201d UNTU general secretary Cobus van Vuuren told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strike will be intensifying today and over the coming days, picketing will also be intensifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SATAWU was not immediately available to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Van Vuuren said the unions had tabled demands for an increase that would be related to South Africa\u2019s annual inflation rate, which was 7.6% in August.<\/p>\n<p>Transnet has said meeting the unions\u2019 demands would not be sustainable as wages currently make up 66% of its total expenses.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s government and leading business groups on Wednesday warned the ongoing strike would hurt Africa\u2019s most advanced economy. <\/p>\n<p>Exporters of minerals and fresh farm produce are some of the economic sectors impacted by the hobbled freight rail network and ports.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nelson Banya; Editing by Mark Potter)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/s-african-unions-reject-transnets\/attachment\/transnet-workers-protest-as-a-labour-strike-continues-in-durban\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C0CK-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C0CK-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/s-african-unions-reject-transnets\/attachment\/south-africas-transnet-strike-continues-in-cape-town\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C0CM-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C0CM-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 South African rail freight and port workers have rejected logistics firm Transnet\u2019s revised pay offer and vowed to continue a strike that started last week, a union leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}