Wage increases for goods transport workers

T&G has been sitting on the Goods Transport Industrial Council in the Transvaal for three years. T&G negotiates with the bosses’ organisation, the Motor Transport Owners Association (MTOA) once a year. About 500 goods transport companies belong to the MTOA and these bosses employ about 16 000 workers. T&G has about 6 000 goods transport members in the Transvaal. So it is important to negotiate a good deal for T&G workers but also for the many workers we have not organised at this point. There are many things that we negotiate around on the council. Here are some of the things we won this year: All goods transport workers who earn the council minimum wage will get a wage increase. Workers who earn below R118 a week will get a 19% increase and workers who earn above R118 will get a 16% increase. So for example, a general worker was getting R84.61 and will now get R100,64 a week. And a heavy duty driver was getting R130,18 and will now get R151. We also won a night out allowance increase. Drivers will get R20,40 a night and general workers R17,60. The sick benefit and holiday pay bonus now goes to all workers in the transport industry in Transvaal and not only to the drivers