Numsa, SACCA picket at SAA over new airline
Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the South African Cabin Crew Association are picketing outside the South African Airways in offices in Johannesburg.
Tuesday's picket comes less than three weeks after the launch of the new airline.
They've listed unfair working conditions as their main concern and feel that existing issues are being carried over to the new airline.
"Our members are suffering. They feel like they are being treated in slavery conditions. Their salaries have been down buried to less than 35 percent, while management and the upper echelon have taken increases in salaries. They want to be treated like people who have sacrificed and have stood behind brand SAA," SACCAs Zazi Nsibanyoni-Mugambi said.
The union's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola says concerns highlighted by workers during SAA's business rescue process haven't been addressed.
"At least 300 workers are on the Training Lay-Off Scheme (TLS) but they have not been included in the company's future plans. Instead, workers who accepted Voluntary Severance Packages (VSP's) are being re-hired, whilst those on TLS have been sidelined.
"This goes against the purpose of the TLS. The point of TLS is to re-skill and re-develop employees who can be re-absorbed into the new SAA."
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