The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has reached an agreement with the Independent Communication Authority of SA (ICASA) over salary increases.
About 250 CWU members - more than half of ICASA's total workforce - downed tools on Friday in protest over the authority's wage offer. The strike continued yesterday, but was ended when ICASA proposed an 8% across-the-board increase.
CWU national co-ordinator Vulture Ntuluki says members accepted ICASA's latest offer, which will be backdated to last July, and have gone back to work. The increase covers a one-year period.
The regulator offered all employees under the bargaining unit 5% salary increases in December 2011. It has since proposed an “additional 3% on a proportional basis to be granted on a sliding scale across the board”.
Staff at the bottom rung of the salary scale were previously offered a maximum 8% salary increase, while the proposal for top-level earners was 6.5%, ICASA said previously. The authority could not be reached for comment.
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