Xinavane Sugar transport workers end strike, agree to 5% raise – Labour mediation

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Xinavane Sugar transport workers end strike, agree to 5% raise – Labour mediation

8:31 CAT | 23 Aug 2016

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A strike at the Xinavane Sugar company, in Maputo province, came to an end on Thursday, when the company and the workforce signed an agreement, after intervention by the sugar workers’ union and by the Provincial Labour Mediation and Arbitration centre.

According to a press release from the Mozambican Labour Ministry, the strike, in pursuit of a demand for a 26 per cent wage increase, broke out last Monday, and involved 120 workers, from the cane transport sector.

After lengthy negotiations, the company agreed to increase the wages of this group of workers by just five per cent. Their monthly wage packet will thus rise from 11,074.5 meticais (about 156 US dollars at current exchange rates) to 11,628.22 meticais.

In addition, the company agreed to pay all its 459 workers (most of them casual) an extra three per cent “sugar campaign allowance” every month.

The workers and the company management also agreed to strengthen mechanisms for “permanent dialogue”, said the release.

The Ministry claimed that the mediation and arbitration service, set up in 2009 to find extra-judicial solutions to labour disputes, has proved its value by reducing the number of strikes or other forms of instability in the labour market.

Source: AIM