PAY DEMANDS: Eskom signs one-year agreement with unions for 7% wage hike while load shedding rolls on - Daily Maverick

Eskom signed a one-year wage agreement for 7% pay hike on Tuesday with three unions, bringing an end to the threat of further strike action widely blamed for tipping the grid into Stage 6 load shedding. But the utility warned that its maintenance backlog as a…

The agreement with Solidarity, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was reached at the Central Bargaining Forum (CBF) on Tuesday afte… [+3249 chars]

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