NATIONAL NEWS - Eskom on Monday vowed to take disciplinary action against its workers who embarked on industrial action and damaged infrastructure last week as the power utility and unions failed to reach an agreement in protracted wage negotiations.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) last week threatened to go on a massive strike at Eskom over the wage dispute, saying the state-owned electricity company was negotiating in bad faith. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said it would only sign a deal if Eskom removed the precondition of disciplinary action.
But Eskom is not relenting, saying in a statement that those employees who engaged in potentially criminal acts of destruction of property and sabotage were now outside the company’s jurisdiction and in the hands of the police.
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