Too many strikes: minister

[James]

Government is struggling to contain the frequency of wage-related protests, Deputy Mineral Resources Minister Godfrey Oliphant said on Tuesday.

The surge in strikes, observed from 2007, calls for a resuscitation of trust and respect in wage negotiations, Oliphant told the third biennial labour relations conference hosted by the Public Service Commission in Pretoria.

Reducing the number of strikes meant an improved ability to reach agreement, with an emphasis on rebuilding...read more here: Too many strikes: minister

[MalicE]

funny seeing as they started this snowball

[Cicero]

No shit! How they ever let the public sector get so out of control is beyond me.

[InSanity]

so thousands of people screamign this for months and they only realise now ... GGWP

[Ike_009]

/pinches leg
/slaps leg

I couldn't believe it, they actually admitted we have a problem but then I saw they blamed apartheid so now we're back to judgement

[Murph]

At first I was like ...

Then I will I was like......

the legacy of apartheid era oppression, racial discrimination, and extreme income and wage inequalities.

/facepalm

[MalicE]

At first I was like ...

Then I will I was like......




/facepalm

yeah far as I know (might be wrong here) the ANC set the minimum wages...

[InSanity]

its exactly like i said in that other thread the worse thigns get the more they blame it on the past

[Tsar]

Watch when this country falls apart and the rest of the world wants nothing to do with it they will blame the whites once again.

[InSanity]

Craziest part is my best friend in grade 1 was black ...