eNCA reports that members of the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) declared a total shutdown of the Department of Social Development offices in Johannesburg on Friday morning, burning tyres in the process.  

Nehawu members at the department have embarked on a nationwide strike demanding improved working conditions for child and youth care workers.  The union says its demands were first tabled to the employer in August 2015 and again in February this year when members staged a nationwide protest to resubmit the demands.  The union has accused the department of releasing an insulting propaganda statement after failing to table a counter offer to its proposals, which the department had for a month.  This report goes on to list the union’s demands.

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