SAA Workers To Go Strike From Friday, Says Numsa and Sacca

Riyaz Patel

Cabin crew and other workers at South African Airways (SAA) will go on strike from Friday over the struggling state airline’s plan to cut more than 900 jobs, unions said Wednesday.

The impending strike action comes despite a warning by the interim SAA CFO that “any industrial action will endanger the existence of South African Airways (SAA), and could destroy every job at the state-owned airline.”

So many questions about the #SAA strike: is the common man affected? How did management arrive at this decision to retrench when they have not been able to produce fin results for almost 2 years? why did the unions not strike during period of "gross incompetence & corruption"?? https://t.co/PEGsvRizRT
— Mthembo (@ishdube) November 13, 2019

“We are left with no choice but to resort to this drastic action by withdrawing our labour and going on strike,” Zazi Nsibanyoni-Anyiam, president of the