gautrain

In S.A, Gautrain services could be disrupted today as members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa will embark on a strike over wages. The union is demanding a 13-percent wage increase, a 60-percent contribution to medical aid costs by Bombela Operating Company, which operates the service, and a housing allowance of two-thousand-rand per employee per month. Numsa’s spokesperson, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, says wage talks have deadlocked: