Disatisfaction with this year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one could be on the way as metal workers attempt to win a better wage increase at plant-level.
Archive record
Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases

- Origin date
- April 1982
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106963
South African History Online (2016) 'Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106963 (Accessed: 26 July 2026).
South African History Online, Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106963, (accessed 26 July 2026).
"Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106963. Accessed 26 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106963.
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