While more incendiary rhetoric related to the main agreement negotiations in the metals and engineering industry can be expected in the run-up to the negotiations later this year, common purpose must be found between stakeholders to craft solutions to entrenched differences, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) CEO and chief negotiator Lucio Trentini says. "The economy has been hit by a double-digit contraction, battered by an unprecedented and alarming jobless rate, and is languishing in sub-optimal economic growth.
