This also includes three months’ backpay.

This is the deal offered to pilots who jumped ship and joined rival union, the National Transport Movement last year, according to Saapa chair Grant Back.

Saapa also wants the airline to pay its members eight months of unpaid salaries.

SAA has been unable to pay employee salaries since March last year.

Back said Saapa is going to the CCMA to argue that the non-payment is unfair, and that by not paying salaries that have accrued yet remain unpaid, the rescue practitioners are acting unlawfully.

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