FTW pick: Roadfreight industry agrees three-year wage deal

In a major coup for industry, negotiators have successfully avoided industrial action in the roadfreight sector following the signing of a three-year wage agreement with unions last week.

Months of intense negotiation finally came to an end when negotiators and unions reached consensus on wage increases for 2016, 2017 and 2018, giving the industry a much-needed breather.

The deal ensures stability in the roadfreight sector - notorious for prolonged and difficult wage negotiations not to mention violent strikes - for the next three years. A similar agreement was brokered in 2012, which means that the industry will have seen six years of industrial peace at the end of this agreement.
This is a major accomplishment for an industry that only three years ago was at such loggerheads with labour.

“We are very pleased with the outcome of the negotiations that ensure labour peace and stability for the industry for the next three years,” Magretia Brown-Engelbrecht, labour manager for the Road Freight Association and one of the chief negotiators, told FTW.

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