{"id":356457,"date":"2019-11-22T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=356457"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:23:08","slug":"saa-strike-likely-to-end-today-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/356457\/saa-strike-likely-to-end-today-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"SAA strike likely to end today: unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strike at South African Airways, which has dragged on since 15 November and grounded a number of flights, is likely to end today, with workers having agreed \u201cin principle\u201d to a pay deal, a senior union official said.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see workers get a 5.9% pay increase, with a further increment &#8211; details of which are still being worked out &#8211; being paid at a later date, Christopher Shabangu, deputy president of the South African Cabin Crew Association, said by phone on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The association and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, which represent more than 3,000 SAA workers, plan to hold a media briefing later on Friday, where they will reveal more details of the terms of the pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>SAA spokesman Tlali Tlali didn\u2019t answer calls to his mobile phone.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/355991\/union-heads-to-court-to-put-saa-in-business-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Union heads to court to put SAA in business rescue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strike at South African Airways, which has dragged on since 15 November and grounded a number of flights, is likely to end today, with workers having agreed \u201cin principle\u201d to a pay deal, a senior union official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":260407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-356457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356459,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457\/revisions\/356459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}