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The Citizen reports that police had to intervene on Monday when temporary workers at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) blocked the entrance to the main campus in Pretoria West, preventing staff, and students’ buses, from entering.
About 100 protesters, which included security guards, catering staff and cleaners, told staff and bus drivers to park their vehicles outside the gates and walk in. They are demanding a minimum salary of R5,000 and have accused management of backtracking on a previous agreement by offering them only R3,800. According to outsourcing activist and spokesperson Austin Mofyoa, TUT management went back on an agreement signed in February to offer workers permanent employment. The workers started their strike last week and disrupted activities on campus for a couple of days. Mofyoa indicated: “We need a clear response from the management before we decide on our way forward. We will not stop our protest until we get that agreement.”
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