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FlySafair airline
Trade union Solidarity has threatened a strike action at local and regional airline, FlySafair over wages.
This following a move to rope in the CCMA to facilitate wage talks at the airline that have been ongoing for three months, leading to a deadlock.
Solidarity is the largest union at FlySafair with demands that include a three-year wage deal for increases of 10.5 % in year one, while the airline is offering is for a 5.7% increase.
Solidarity’s Deputy Secretary General, Helgard Cronje says their members are ready to down tools at FlySafair.
“We are meeting with the CCMA and the employer this afternoon, basically in a final session to finalise picketing rules. We’ve reached the deadlock based on a final offer we received from the employer, which our members voted on and basically unanimously rejected.
So that led to the deadlock and today’s meeting. If there’s no resolution the CCMA would need to issue a certificate that allows us to give a strike notice to the company. We are obligated in terms of an agreement with the company to give 72-hours-notice.”
