After week of bedlam and more Stage 6, unions’ wage decision expected on Tuesday

After a weekend of marathon meetings with Eskom leadership to reach a wage agreement with unions, labour is likely to emerge with a position on whether to accept the power utility’s latest wage offer on Tuesday. The unions – the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), and Solidarity – resumed wage negotiations on Friday after a deadlock in wage talks triggered strike protests at several Eskom plants, hindering vital maintenance work and plunging the country into Stage 6 load shedding.