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Telecoms workers challenge dismissal

    JOHANNESBURG

    Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (PTC) engineers and technicians have filed an urgent application in the High Court to challenge their summary dismissal, the official ‘Herald’ newspaper said on Wednesday.

    The workers are also seeking a court order to force the PTC, facing a major debt burden, to pay salaries recommended by an arbitrator last year.

    The PTC engineers and technicians went on a countrywide strike in March to press for a salary raise to match their counterparts in the mobile phone section, NetOne. A spokesman for the corporation said the salary increase being sought by the workers was not practical, given what he called PTC s financial woes.

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