BusinessLive reports that the absorption of contract workers into the City of Tshwane workforce is causing some trouble for the city’s new administration.  

On Friday a number of workers affiliated to the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) took to the streets in unprotected protest action.  The union’s Mpho Tladinyane said what caused the protest was the city’s executive mayor, Solly Msimanga, failure to meet workers.  In a meeting last week, workers were told that the city would make 3,000 workers permanent out of the 8,000 strong temporary workforce.  They asked for the list of the 3,000 people concerned, but the city did not disclose that information.  Agreement was reached at the meeting that Msimanga would meet worker representatives the following day, but that did not happen, which sparked the protest.  Mayoral spokesperson Samkelo Mgobozi said there was a process under way of identifying all the people who were eligible to be absorbed by the city.  He added that it would not be all 8,000 of the contract workers as the city was not an employment agency.

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