NUMSA’s intervention leads to payment of salaries at Rea Vaya

2 November 2023

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has noted that workers employed at Rea Vaya have finally been paid their salaries. This follows the intervention of the union, after the City of Joburg (COJ) failed to pay the bus operating companies Pio Trans and Letsamaiso, which meant that workers’ salaries were not paid on time.

We hope that this situation has been resolved once and for all and that, the COJ will prevent delays like this happening in future. We are demanding that there must a final resolution to this problem because workers’ salaries have been delayed almost every month since the beginning of the year. Our members are hard working men and women who are raising their families. In these tough economic times, any delay in the salary causes an immediate crisis for them.

It cannot be right that the councillors of the COJ get their salaries on time, but other employees of the city, whose taxes contribute to the salaries of the very same councillors, must beg to be paid. This is something which must be urgently rectified and we demand guarantees from the city, in writing, that this will never happen again.

NUMSA wishes to thank its officials for responding swiftly to the situation. In the meantime, our members have returned to work.

Aluta continua!

The struggle continues!

Issued by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary, 2 November 2023