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BusinessLive reports that striking eThekwini municipal water and sanitation department employees have vowed to intensify their protest amid concerns that services could be disrupted on general election day.
Workers gathered at the Springfield depot on Monday morning to meet managers over their grievances. Queen Mbatha of the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) refused to comment on allegations that striking workers had sabotaged the water supply to several areas in and around Durban or that services could be affected on general election day on 8 May. Mbatha did though say that “workers are not going out to fix faults so there will be areas without water.” In a statement a week ago, city manager Sipho Nzuza indicated that the workers were demanding to be elevated to grade 10, namely the same salary level they claimed Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association members were receiving. According to the workers, the MK veterans, who were employed by the city in 2016, were upgraded from grade 4. Nzuza claimed that all human resource processes had been followed to the letter. It is believed that electricity department workers were threatening to join the strike.
- Read the full original of Nivashni Nair’s report on the strike at BusinessLive
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