Missive from parts of Africa

A light hearted and sometimes serious look at moving 6000km into a place in Africa: April 2007. Promoted back to South Africa, the missive will continue to track my foray's into deepest Africa as and when I get there.

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Location: Joburg, Africa, South Africa

Monday, August 01, 2005

More news from SA

Well courtesy of SAA I remained in South Africa for the week.

The strike was finally resolved on friday where the employees got an extra 1% and happily returned to work to take care of the backlog.

Now - someone really has to teach the unions about results of settling a one week strike for an additional 1%.

There are 52 weeks in a year dear union. Each week represents 1.9% of your annual earnings. By not working for 1 week, you lost 1.9% of your annual earnings. You settled at 1% increase in annual earnings, so your members are 0.9% worse off. And to make matters worse you had SAA by the short and curlys. End of Lession - negotiations and strike action 101.

We are booked on the flight tonight and assume there will be enough room on the flight for us. Spare a thought of our poor lad who was stuck in Ghana for the week and only arrives today. At least I was stuck this side.

So in theory, my next missive will be from Ghana.

A last word of welcome to the seven people from the office who are going to appear on the thought police access list as they browse my blog. At least there is no porn on this site for them to point the crooked finger at!!

Have a fine day friendly ones:

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