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Several trade unions, representing an estimated 170 000 workers, started a countrywide strike in the steel and engineering sector yesterday to press for higher wages.

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) braved the cold in Johannesburg for a march to demand a 13 percent pay hike, compared with the 7 percent offered by the employers, represented by the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of SA (Seifsa).

Workers, some wrapped in blankets, and many of them wearing red Numsa T-shirts over bulky winter clothes, filled the square outside the Worker’s Library in Newtown, where the march started.

Police kept an eye on the crowd as it was entertained with music played over a loud-speaker on the back of a bakkie. The strikers, who were also demanding the banning of labour brokers, received many messages of support.

The SACP said its leaders would participate in the march in solidarity with the engineering workers. “It is time now that we decisively put capital on the back foot and undermine its growing arrogance and hold on the lives of ordinary South Africans,” it said.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said: “We appeal to the employer bodies in steel, engineering, paper, print and chemicals to accede to these reasonable demands.”

NUM general secretary Frans Baleni added: “There should be no going back in our fight for a living wage. It is not negotiable to earn a decent wage, it is a ‘must deliver’.”

The SA Municipal Workers Union said the engineering workers’ demands were “both reasonable and necessary”.

Numsa spokesman Castro Ngobese said that workers were striking in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, East London and Cape Town.

Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal workers were expected to hold demonstrations yesterday, while workers in the Free State and Northern Cape would start their work stoppage today.

Numsa, which represents about 120 000 workers, would be joined by five other trade unions representing at least another 50 000 workers.

Seifsa’s website said it had received strike notifications from the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu), the Metal and Electrical Workers Union and the United Association of SA (Uasa).

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