BDLive reports that more than 200,000 members of labour federation Cosatu in the Western Cape are due to go on a strike on Wednesday to demand improved rail and bus services in Cape Town.
The one-day action is likely to cause major disruptions in the province. Cosatu said that negotiations following a ‘Section 77’ application to Nedlac in 2015 had not yielded the desired results. Cosatu’s Western Cape regional secretary Tony Ehrenreich said on Monday: "The train services are still poor, and MyCiTi buses mainly cater for the affluent areas." Cosatu has demanded that Metrorail refund workers the money they are losing as a result of train delays, which occur often. Meanwhile, Ehrenreich urged bosses to stop disciplining workers for arriving late at work because of Metrorail delays.
- Read this report by Bekezela Phakathi in full at BDLive
- Read too, Cosatu to rally on Wednesday against Metrorail’s poor Western Cape service, at Cape Times
- And also, Thousands of Cosatu workers to protest in Cape Town over bus and rail services, at Fin24
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