In contrast to that, profits, share prices, property prices, top salaries are soaring. Also salaries in certain skilled areas, such as computers, are escalating. Construction electricians won extra increase for themselves. Also, published statistics are consistently above the P2000 terms. There is nothing mysterious about profits and non-wage incomes flying above wage rises when you have a national norm that restrains wages only.
Statistics use average earnings, so let's put aside overtime, etc.
Here's the picture. On the one hand the unions are signed up to P2000 with even official inflation paralleling pay rises now. There's simply no incentive for them to join up the four and a bit per cent the Unions have delivered. The same could be said for P2000. Within P2000 strong sectors, or confident sectors, have wrenched rises way above the basic terms, even when productivity, etc. is taken into consider-ation, and fair balls to them.