Cosatu to push for 'double-digit'wage increases.(News)

BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA

DURBAN: Employers are in for a tough time this year after Cosatu took a hard-line approach yesterday to wage bargaining, saying its members would accept nothing less than double-digit increases.

The organisation's second vice-president, Violet Seboni, told Cosatu shop stewards in KwaZulu-Natal that the "tsunami of food prices", unemployment and the casualisation of jobs meant the situation was critical. "Double-digit figures should be the order of this year's bargaining."

Amidst rising food costs, interest rates and petrol, and with a looming electricity hike of 53%, Seboni said last year's increases had been reduced to …