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TMG Digital/DispatchLive report that National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) members were huddled in talks on a revised wage offer from Rhodes University on Thursday.
Nehawu on Wednesday rejected outright the offer of a 6.5% across-the-board increase which a fellow union at the university‚ the National Tertiary Education Union (Nteu)‚ had accepted. Protesting Nehawu members were yesterday warned by the university that it would consider disciplinary action if they did not immediately return to work. Nehawu members overturned bins and strew rubbish across the university administration building steps in a vocal protest against the university’s revised 6.5% salary increase offer. Vice-chancellor Sizwe Mabizela expressed deep concern about the deteriorating state of hygiene at some residences and pleaded for calm and level-headedness. Nehawu is demanding a 7.5% across-the-board increase‚ an increase of the housing allowance from R1‚000 to R1‚500 per month‚ an increase in danger allowances‚ the abolishment of the lower salary grades‚ and a merit increment to be shared equally by all employees.
- Read this report by Adrienne Carlisle in full at TimesLive
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