President Cyril Ramaphosa has called onSAA has cancelled nearly all domestic, regional and international flights on Friday and on Saturday following an announcement by the South African Cabin Crew Association and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa that their members will embark on what they are calling ‘the mother of all strikes’ on Friday morning.
Unions are demanding an 8% salary increase but SAA management is offering 5.9%, subject to the availability of funds. Ramaphosa says, “Well government obviously is the shareholder, so the shareholder obviously has to play a role in the background while management and the board of directors are in the scrum together with the unions, and dealing with all these issues. So government is not completely delinked from this process and we’ll obviously try to find ways together with management to resolve this dispute.”
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