Numsa secures above-inflation wage hike in automotive sector
Updated | By Sandile Bhengu
Metalworkers union Numsa says it has managed to secure an 8.5% increase for workers employed in car manufacturing and related industries.
The three-year-agreement secures an above-inflation wage hike, as well as a once-off R10 000 gratuity payment and higher housing subsidies.
Numsa general-secretary Irvin Jim says the agreement is significant as they managed to maintain the workers' living standards, while other unions encourage their workers to settle for 3% increases.
"We have been having a very serious demand for our members of breaking the ceiling to move workers with skills from level 4 to level 5," says Jim.
"There will be a process where within a period of 6 months, those workers will have to be shifted from level 4 to level 5 and shop stewards working to ensure that is realised which is a very serious achievement."
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