TWO South African unions on Friday rejected job cuts proposed to rescue South African Airways, which has cost the government more than a billion dollars to stave off bankruptcy and will cost it about half that again to reform.
State-owned SAA went into a form of bankruptcy protection in December, and since then state-appointed administrators have been trying to see what they can salvage.
Unions had been in discussions with them and had previously accepted that some job cuts would be necessary.
The current plan, which would involve laying off about 90% of staff leaving just 1,000 jobs, will cost at least 10 billion rand ($573.9 million). That is on top of the 20 billion rand that has been spent just keeping the airline afloat in the past three years.
But The National Union of Metalworkers of South African (NUMSA) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA), angered by
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