Friday July 3, 06:56 PM
Thousands to strike at SAfrica's public broadcaster
CAPE TOWN (AFP) - More than half the workforce at South Africa's embattled public broadcaster will go on strike on Monday over a pay dispute which has gone unresolved as the institution's board collapsed.
The SAPA news agency reported some 2,000 of the South African Broadcast Corporation's 3,000 staff members would start a go-slow on Monday, picketing during lunch hours with a march next Friday.
"After that we will be embarking on a complete withdrawal of labour in the form of a stay-away from the 13th of July until management accedes to our demands," the agency quoted Gallant Roberts of the Communication Worker's Union as saying.
"I'm sure there will be a major impact on operations," he said.
The ailing broadcaster has ground to a halt as all but one of its 12 board members resigned in recent weeks. Acting South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday rubberstamped a parliamentary resolution this week to dissolve the board.
An interim board has been agreed upon.
Massive debt due to financial mismanagement, political interference and friction between board members and management have been attributed to the collapse of the broadcaster.
Unions approached the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration after the broadcaster revised a 12.2 percent multi-term pay offer it was supposed to have implemented in April, to 8.5 percent.
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