Numsa members and employees of an electrical appliance manufacturing company strike over pay disputes in Pinetown.The National Union of Metal Workers of SA has vowed to intensify the strike against companies that refuse to implement the wage agreement they entered into with the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of SA last year.
Ngubane said they had been negotiating with Jasco for about four months after the company allegedly refused to pay bonuses. “They are trying to say they are not bound by the agreement because the actual work that they do does not fall under the metal industry. They are saying that 70% of their work is manufacturing plastic, which we will argue against because they are lying. There are workers here who can testify that the bigger percentage of their work is metal. That is the bone of contention tomorrow in court.”