The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa's (Numsa) representing 341 150 members will come out on a protected socio-economic strike on Wednesday 19 March 2014 to demand jobs for South Africa's youth.
This is the first of a series of rolling socio-economic strikes that the union decided on at its Special National Congress in December 2013. Since November 2013, Numsa has been involved in negotiations with government at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) where the union objected to the Employment Tax Incentive Bill that government had tabled in parliament. Contrary to the NEDLAC Act of 1994 that requires that socio-economic policies be discussed with labour, business and community constituencies within the social dialogue body before they are tabled before the legislature, government took the Bill to parliament.
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