The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it is still demanding a 15% wage increase at Eskom, and not 5%, as some media houses have reported in the past few days.
The union leadership urged its members on Thursday not to be misled by the media reports that the union has revised its benefits and salary offer from 15% to 5%.
“The NUM negotiating team will only get the mandate to revise the offer from its members who are the owners of the union,” the union said in a statement.
“We need to continue with our legal pickets and memorandum’s handover in all workplaces.”
The union said in a statement that on June 10, the NUM, NUMSA and Solidarity met with Eskom at the CCMA Head Office in Johannesburg.
The purpose of the meeting was conciliation and mediation after Eskom aborted the negotiations and referred the case to CCMA.
“In the meeting, Eskom failed to change their so-called offer. Conciliation is off the record and whatever is discussed in conciliation is not binding to any party. The NUM is still demanding 15% with all other conditions of service and organizational rights,” said NUM.
“We cannot move if there is no offer on the table. The so-called offer by Eskom is not an offer. The condition that we must allow the varying down of our hard-earned condition of service is madness. We are not fools who will agree to give more to Eskom and receive less from them.”
- Inside Politics
