Workers in South Africa's motor
and gold industries will return to work this week after strikes that have
crippled operations at some of the country's biggest producers were resolved on
the weekend. Prolonged labour disputes in the two key exporting industries had
threatened to compound the woes of Africa's largest economy, still reeling from
last year's violent strikes in mining and continuing problems in the platinum
sector.
"We are calling off the
strike so workers can return on Monday," the National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa's (NUMSA) deputy general secretary Karl Cloete
said on Sunday. The dispute over pay affected more than 30,000 assembly line
workers at major carmakers in South Africa, including Toyota , Ford, General
Motors and Nissan. Cloete said the union recommended workers accept an increase
of 11.5 percent for this year and 10 percent in each of the next two years.
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