CWU members yet to accept SABC wage deal

CWU members yet to accept SABC wage deal

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) says they are still waiting on the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to accept the wage offer they've put on the table.

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This comes after Broadcasting, Electronic Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) and the Cosatu-aligned Communication Workers Union went on strike days before the African National Congress' (ANC) national elective conference was scheduled to start.

 

SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago says while they've signed a wage offer with Bemawu, CWU are still in discussions with members.

 

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''As far as CWU is concerned, they've taken the offer but would like to get concurrence with their members first.''

 

SABC announced that it agreed to a wage of a 4.8% in basic salary, back-dated to July 2017.

 

Kganyago says Bemawu has since instructed its members to go to work and SABC's normal scheduling operations are expected to go back to normal from Monday.

 

''Obviously the wage deal with Bemawu happened Friday evening, but we were told that Bemawu had instructed its workers to go back to work.

 

''The deal also happened at a time where we had contingency plans given the ANC national elective conference to ensure that every programme is on air, but by tomorrow everything should go back to normal.''

 

SABC initially offered workers a 4.5% raise, while workers were demanding a 10% hike.

 

Meanwhile, the SABC's Acting Group Chief Executive Officer, Nomsa Philiso said ''the negotiations were quite tough'' especially given the organisation's current financial crisis.

 

The SABC recorded a loss of R74.4m in the first three months of the 2017/18 financial year.

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