About 20,000 workers at South Africa’s Eskom Medupi power plant have been locked out of the construction site on Thursday following a one-day strike over poor living conditions and higher pay, a union official told Reuters.
“The company decided to lock workers out. The site is closed, around 20,000 workers are off site,” said Steve Nhlapo, head of collective bargaining for the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa.
This comes after workers embarked on a one day strike on Wednesday.
They were protesting against poor living conditions and also demanding a higher pay.
“They are doing this especially to black workers, there is no white person staying in that hostel. This is discrimination,” said Steve Nhlapho, an organiser at the National Union of Metalworkers said on Talk Radio 702.
Workers at Medupi power plant locked out
About 20,000 workers at South Africa’s Eskom Medupi power plant have been locked out of the construction site on Thursday following a one-day strike over poor living conditions and higher pay, a union official told Reuters.
“The company decided to lock workers out. The site is closed, around 20,000 workers are off site,” said Steve Nhlapo, head of collective bargaining for the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa.
This comes after workers embarked on a one day strike on Wednesday.
They were protesting against poor living conditions and also demanding a higher pay.
“They are doing this especially to black workers, there is no white person staying in that hostel. This is discrimination,” said Steve Nhlapho, an organiser at the National Union of Metalworkers said on Talk Radio 702.
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