Unions are calling on workers across the country to stay away from work on Wednesday to join the nationwide strike against the proposed national minimum wage of R20 per hour.<\/p>\n
Phakamile Hlubi-Majola of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says\u00a0 members will be on strike tomorrow but they will not be marching in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
The Chief Executive Officer of Middelburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Anna-Mart Ott says business will run as usual at the Chamber of Commerce, \u201cwe will be operating as normal tomorrow and we will apply the no-work-no-pay policy to those who will not report to work,\u201d said Ms Ott.<\/p>\n
Steelcrest High School and the Ekwazi Secondary School say from what they know everything will be operating as normal, learners and staff members are expected to report to school tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Trade Unions are expected to take to the streets in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Polokwane to protest against the proposed national minimum wage.<\/p>\n
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Trade Unions are promising to bring the country to a standstill tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":80604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11315,21966,21990,11314,11319,11318,11316,2799,11317],"class_list":["post-80603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-april-25th","tag-middelburg","tag-mpumalanga","tag-national-strike","tag-no-work-no-pay","tag-numsa","tag-saftu-strike","tag-south-africa","tag-strike-2018"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["April 25th","middelburg","Mpumalanga","National strike","no-work-no-pay","NUMSA","SAFTU STRIKE","South Africa","Strike 2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}