President Jacob Zuma said he was alarmed and saddened by the degeneration in the industrial dispute.
This is an industrial dispute that needs to be resolved by government and unions.
The legal industrial dispute started in April last year, and the workers were fired two months later.
The strike is the second major industrial dispute the country has seen after a strike by taxi drivers in June 2007.
In a letter to the Guardian, the academics say they can find no other reason for his stance in the industrial dispute with the Unite union.
It was the lifting of the pensionable age and complicated changes to the way that pension entitlements are earned that was at the centre of the industrial dispute.
But the union saw a breakaway faction emerge during the industrial dispute, when miners in Nottinghamshire voted by three-quarters to oppose the strike and form the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers.
They also staff the country's 271 dispute-settling industrial tribunals (known as prud'hommes councils) and fix national agreements on wages and working conditions.
Unison said further industrial would be taken if the dispute could not be resolved.
Gregor Gall, professor of industrial relations at Hertfordshire University, says the fact this dispute is taking place in the public sector makes having the man on the street onside even more important.
The public relations war over the solar trade fight between the U.S. and China heated up Wednesday with two industrial heavyweights, Dow Corning and DuPont, warning that the dispute could disrupt the solar supply chain.
The country's industrial regulator, Fair Work Australia, stepped in to end the dispute, ordering both sides back to work on Monday after emergency talks.
First, as Senator Lott once warned, ratification of LOST would commit the United States to submit to mandatory dispute resolution with respect to U.S. military and industrial operations.
In Birmingham, the situation was made worse by industrial action, which led to binmen walking out on 20 December in a pay dispute and subsequently working to rule.
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