South African Ports Operator Doubles Wage Offer to Avert Strike

  • Transnet will now offer workers a 3% increase, up from 1.5%
  • Union members earlier informed company they plan to strike
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South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company will double its wage-increase offer to labor unions as it seeks to avert a strike.

Transnet SOC Ltd. will formally propose that workers get a 3% pay increase, spokeswoman Ayanda Shezi said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. The previous offer was for a 1.5% raise.