Last month, about 15,0000 workers affiliated to the Chemical‚ Energy‚ Paper‚ Printing‚ Wood and Allied Workers’ Union (Ceppwawu) downed tools demanding a nine percent wage increase.
The employer says it can only afford 7%.
Talks later deadlocked, seeing petrol stations across the country especially in Gauteng running dry.
The union’s Clement Chitja said: "The commissioner has made a proposal and most parties will be responding to that proposal whether it is acceptable in terms of the mandate they have."
