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GroundUp reports that workers at the R68-million Noninzi Luzipho Primary School construction site in KwaNobuhle township, Uitenhage, are on strike over a training fund.
About 40 workers employed by Alex Maintenance and Electrical Services downed tools earlier this week, saying that the strike would continue until their demands were met. According to the workers, R600,000 had been put aside for training by the Coega Development Corporation (CDC), which has been contracted by the Eastern Cape Department of Education to build the school. Apparently, the training was for bricklaying, electrical services, carpentry, machine usage and plumbing skills. Instead, the workers claimed, the money had been used to top up their salaries from August last year, from R16 to R22 an hour. Protest leader Ndyebo Sifuba said: “After the project, we won’t get jobs, because we have had no training. What we are saying is that all we want is training, and that is it.” Another protestor said: “We will stop the protest when we see training happening.”
- Read the full original of Thamsanqa Mbovane’s report on the above at GroundUp
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