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Engineering News writes that this year will see organised labour and the automotive assembly and component manufacturing sectors return to the bargaining table to thrash out new wage accords.
One of the key issues in expanding the automotive industry in SA is long-term labour stability, says newly appointed Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) president and CEO Andrew Kirby. He is hopeful that the tone of this year’s negotiations will be different from the talks conducted in 2013, owing to a number of reasons. For one, all of the stakeholders visited Australia at the end of last year, in an effort to learn why vehicle manufacturing will halt in that country in 2017. Also, they convened a special-purpose indaba in January this year to discuss the prevailing business environment within the automotive sector and seek better alignment between all the parties’ objectives. Kirby says industry has also worked hard to gain “a better understanding” of the issues placed on the table by organised labour. Pre-bargaining has not yet started.
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