LISTEN: SATAWU to make submissions to CCMA
Transport union SATAWU is making submissions before the CCMA today, opposing the possible classification of transport as an essential service.
The Essential Services Committee has been holding public hearings into whether those in the transport sector and teachers should be prevented from taking part in strikes.
Satawu's Zanele Sabela says the transport sector is not formalised enough to be considered an essential service.
According to the labour legislation under which the Essential Services Committee was established, it may only determine a service as essential where it can be shown that an interruption of that service would, ‘endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the population’.