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The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Prasheen Maharaj estimates that the Transnet strike will cost the economy about a billion rand a day.

Transnet has again said it does not have the money to meet the salary increase demanded by workers affiliated to unions, SATAWU and UNTU.Transnet has again said it does not have the money to meet the salary increase demanded by workers affiliated to unions, SATAWU and UNTU.Speaking on the sidelines of the World Maritime Day Parallel Event in Durban, Maharaj said the previous Transnet strike cost the economy R7 billion in 2010.

She says the provincial Government has offered support to Transnet in implementing its Business Continuity Plan. The workers’ unions and Transnet have been locked in wage talks for a second day at the bargaining council in Johannesburg.

 

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