SAfrica: Striking truckers sign wage deal

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? A strike by some 20,000 truckers in South Africa ended Friday with an agreement to increase wages, said the strikers' union.

The truckers signed a three-year wage deal that gives them a 10 percent pay raise in the first year, said Vincent Masoga, spokesman for the South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union. In the second year the truckers are to get an increase of 8.5 percent and then 9 percent in the third year, Masoga said.

The strike, which had entered its third week, threatened the supply of consumer goods and gas across South Africa.

It was not immediately possible to get a comment from the Road Freight Employers Association, but early on Friday it had said a new wage deal with workers was imminent.

The truckers' strike was sometimes violent, with several trucks set on fire in South Africa and drivers attacked with petrol bombs and rocks. At least one driver died after being hit with a rock.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/safrica-striking-truckers-sign-wage-deal-114912534.html

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