The Star reports that call operators from the national emergency hotline 10111 were due to march to the office of the Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula in Tshwane on Tuesday morning over a wage dispute.
The SA Policing Union (Sapu) and the newly formed SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) expressed their full support for the action. Saftu spokesperson Patrick Craven said the 10111 call operators wanted salaries that were level with those in other government call centers. He explained that, following a meeting in 2013 with the then National Commissioner and the Provincial Commissioner, a task team was formed to benchmark the operators’ salaries against other government call centres. The task team recommended in April 2016 that the salary level of 10111 operators should be upgraded to level 7. A job evaluation was moeover completed in about October 2016 and it also recommended salary level 7. But these recommendation have never been implemented. Sapu spokesperson Oscar Skommere said Tuesday’s march would be a “go-slow” for the present and not yet a full blown strike. “We will be handing over a memorandum and from today we are giving them 14 days to respond positively,” he said.
- Read this report by Ilanit Chernick in full at The Star
- Read too, 10111 call centre staff to march in Pretoria, at eNCA
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