STEEL INDUSTRY: Conducting your business with the DUTIES-SWORD hanging over your head (yet another testimony)

MEIBC

  THE Seifsa (ONLY) STANDSTILL AGREEMENT

Dear employer

Engineering News recently reported that Seifsa and the five trade union parties to the MEIBC have concluded a ‘historic standstill industry main agreement’.

In a previous communique, we had already indicated the practical effect of this agreement on Seifsa members.

However, in light of this most recent publication, we need to emphasize the following:

• this is a party agreement binding only the parties thereto, i.e. only Seifsa members (less than 10% of employers in the Industry);
• it is not an agreement of the Council and can therefore not be enforced by the MEIBC;
• it is not an Industry agreement;
• it is not a “main agreement” of the Bargaining Council but simply an agreement between Seifsa and the relevant trade unions; and
• it does not bind NEASA members or any employer who is not a member of a Seifsa-affliated organisation, at least 90% of employers the Industry.

It is about time that Seifsa stops misleading the Steel Industry in such a blatant manner.

Regards

 We are all in this together.

Privileged and challenged to be South African.