Deadline nears for SAA board in addressing union demands
The clock's ticking for management at SAA. It's deliberating over the demands put forward by workers' unions.
NUMSA and SACCA gave the national carrier seven days to get back to them after a meeting with the board.
The unions want the airline to launch a turnaround plan, which they say, had been approved by National Treasury and can restore SAA's financial stability by 2021.
The union's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola says at Thursday's meeting, members of the board didn't support Vuyani Jarana's strategy.
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They want the former group CEO to be reinstated.
"On the one hand, he is being appointed to run an airline and make it profitable. When he comes up with a strategy to do so - those who are supposed to support him, pull back and pull back their support. We need them to take us seriously because if they don't, we are going to take the necessary steps to begin to mobilise for a national strike," Hlubi-Majola said.
Zukiswa Ramasia's currently SAA's acting group CEO.
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