Pretoria News reports that members of the #OutsourcingMustFall movement have accused tertiary institutions, the City of Tshwane and other institutions of reneging on certain agreements regarding outsourced workers. They have threatened to shut down Gauteng, rendering it ungovernable for a day.
At a briefing on Wednesday, they addressed three memorandums of demand sent to the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), the University of Pretoria (UP) and to the Department of Higher Education and Training. Therein, they accuse the institutions and the department of failing to allow full participation of workers’ representatives in task teams set up to oversee insourcing; failure to ensure the reinstatement of dismissed workers or insourced jobs for those workers left unemployed through contract changes; and failure to agree with workers about wage increases and the date these increases will be effective from. The initial date for the Gauteng shutdown was next Monday, but due to SRC elections in tertiary institutions, it was postponed. A definite date for the shutdown would be known by Tuesday.
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