EWN reports that the National Health Education & Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) says it will continue with its strike at the Department of Social Development until its demands for better salaries and working conditions are met.  

The union claims that ever since the strike commenced in March, Minister Bathabile Dlamini has on many occasions reneged on her commitment to hold a meeting to discuss a way forward.  Nehawu’s Khaya Xaba said:  “Many operations have been frustrated by the strike but it does not mean we cannot exercise our constitutional right.  We will not stand idly while we notice that the department is not giving workers what is due to them.”  Striking social workers and auxiliary workers are said to have been responsible for the mayhem at Gauteng child and youth care centres, blocking entrances and preventing food and medication from being delivered.

• Read this report by Sifiso Zulu at EWN
• Read too, Worker in ICU‚ cars damaged by poo throwing social development strikers, at TimesLive

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