Bus company strikers march to City Hall

[caption id="attachment_103793" align="alignright" width="300"] TRANSPORT PROTEST: A striking Algoa Bus Company employee takes a break after marching to the City Hall. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE[/caption]

ABOUT 200 angry striking Algoa Bus Company employees and others gathered at New Brighton’s Nangoza Jebe Hall and marched to the City Hall yesterday to deliver a memorandum to the Department of Transport, the mayor’s office and their employer.

At the City Hall they sang struggle songs, voicing their unhappiness as a bus strike entered its 12th day.

Tens of thousands of Nelson Mandela Bay commuters have been left stranded for almost two weeks due to the bus workers’ strike. The company employs about 700 people and operates 412 buses.

The employees went on strike after claiming that the company had failed to honour agreements struck with them during collective bargaining.

They also had problems with certain employment conditions and the company’s death benefits policy.

The duration of the strike is at this stage still indefinite.

-Annelisa Swana