Treasury Ramp Up Pressure on Unions in Calls for Unified Public Sector Salary Structure

LOCAL NEWS

• Treasury says it wants a new unified salary structure to rein in the public sector wage bill after negotiations with Unions began last week. Calls for legislation to create uniform compensation structure for all public sector managers as it battles to cut or freeze the wage bill in line with its fiscal consolidation goals – BusinessDay
• EnergyMin Mantashe met with Sibanye & unions after workers booed Ramaphosa off the stage on Monday where he urged both parties to reach a settlement. Sibanye & Unions are set to meet again on Thursday with no sign of an agreement just yet with analysts concerned about the impact of mine closures on the industry after 8 weeks.
  • Unions AMCU & NUM threatened to escalate the strikes by spreading them to SSW’s platinum operations in Rustenburg. Wage talks in the platinum sector will commence next month – Fin24
• Political analyst says the Eastern cape elective conference (this weekend) will be a key indicator of Ramaphosa’s chances of being ANC president for another term in December. However there are ongoing internal squabbles over the step aside rule and who is eligible to run, which risks seeing the conference postponed.
• Ramaphsoa will hope that Mbuyane wins the majority, while a win for Madikizela would favour the RET – Daily Maverick