Media bargaining council mooted
(World News South Africa)

In the wake of the deregistration of the Media Workers´ Association of South Africa (Mwasa), one trade union is floating the idea of forming a media bargaining council.READ MORE: Media workers´ union gets the boot Information Communications and Technology Union (ICTU) spokesperson Thabang Mothelo said this week that a media bargaining council — with the backing of Sunday Independent journalist Piet Rampedi´s Forum of Journalists for Transformation (FJT) — could be on the horizon. Bargaining councils deal with collective agreements, solve labour disputes, establish various schemes and make proposals on labour policies and laws. Statutory councils are formed by registered...