South Africa: SAA, More Than Just a Salary Protest

Workers at the state-owned airline have downed tools in an attempt to force SAA to dissolve the board and replace its senior executives to save the company from collapse or privatisation.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) are intensifying their protest against state-owned South African Airways (SAA). They are demanding that SAA increase their salaries, insource services, root out corruption and dissolve the "corrupt board and senior executive managers".

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