Tuesday, June 19, 2007

S.Africa unions, government meet as strike drags on

(Reuters) - New talks to end South Africa's crippling public sector strike opened on Tuesday amid hopes that the 19-day-old dispute might be moving towards an end.

Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the COSATU union umbrella group, said there was an urgent need to end the strike, but union members would hold out for the best wage hike they could get.


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