NUMSA estimates 200 firms in metals sector have locked out workers

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Aug 06,2014

Wiseman Khuzwayo reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said on Wednesday that lockouts in the metal and engineering industries sector were widespread and that an estimated 200 companies had implemented them. Stephen Nhlapo, the union’s co-ordinator for the sector, said that NUMSA had complied reports of 30 lockouts in KwaZulu-Natal, 30 in Ekurhuleni and 34 in the Western Cape. “This is just three regions out of nine. We therefore estimate there may well be as many as 200 lockouts. Some employers do not say they are lockouts, but simply tell the workers to return on Monday,” he indicated. The National Employers’ Association of SA (NEASA) has advised its members to implement lockouts of striking workers after it said it had been sidelined in the wage settlement ending the four-week strike in the sector. Employer body SEIFSA signed a three-year agreement with NUMSA and five other unions on Tuesday. NEASA did not sign, saying the wage increases were unaffordable. NEASA CEO Gerhard Papenfus yesterday did not want to reveal how many NEASA members had effected lockouts, but said that 50% of his members who had responded said they had implemented the lockout, which was completely voluntary. Papenfus said, “We doing it for the good of the industry, not to pick a fight.” Meantime, COSATU in the Western Cape has threatened to close down firms that effect the lockout.

(Cape Business News)

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