Trade
South Africa Ports’ Smaller Union Satawu Calls Off Strike
- Union urges members to return to work Thursday morning
- Strike has hampered exports of South African metals, minerals
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The smaller of the two main labor unions at South Africa’s state-owned port and rail operator Transnet SOC Ltd. said it had called off a strike over wages that’s curbed key exports.
“We have appealed to our members to go back to work tomorrow morning,” South African Transport and Allied Workers Union’s spokeswoman Amanda Tshemese said by phone on Wednesday. “In the interest of the economy, the majority has signed and we just have to release our members.”