{"id":14414,"date":"2025-11-03T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-power-utility-workers-negotiate-15-salary-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:00","slug":"sa-power-utility-workers-negotiate-15-salary-demand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-power-utility-workers-negotiate-15-salary-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"SA power utility workers negotiate 15% salary demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has kicked off wage negotiations at Eskom with a 15% salary demand for its members.<\/div>\n<div>\nOther demands include\u00a0a housing benefit\u00a0 and the company&#8217;s medical aid contribution of 80%.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe current 7% multi-year agreement ends in April 2026.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe union has signalled that talks could be complicated by Eskom&#8217;s changes to collective bargaining after the entity was unbundled into three divisions.<\/div>\n<div>\nEskom has proposed that the three entities establish their own union recognition agreements.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe\u00a0NUM says the move goes against collective bargaining and will frustrate wage talks at Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13503,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14414","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"NUM has kicked off wage negotiations at Eskom","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19084,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14414\/revisions\/19084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}