GroundUp reports that employees of a Port Elizabeth security company went on a strike on Tuesday demanding that the company recognise their union and also improve their working conditions.  

About 20 security guards of Impact Loss Control sang outside the company premises in Markman industrial area.  They said their strike would continue until their demands were met.  They are members of the Democratised, Transport, Logistics and Allied Workers’ Union (Detawu).  Malibongwe Kayana, provincial secretary for Detawu, accused Impact Loss Control of flouting the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.  The workers listed 11 grievances on cardboard placards which they waved at passers-by.  Kayana claimed that Detawu was the majority union at the company with 120 members out of the company’s 200 workers.  Meantime, employee Fundiswa Mhlabeni was suspended on Monday.  Her charge sheet indicates that this was for inciting workers, via Whatsapp, to strike and for adopting “a rude and/or a disrespectful attitude towards your superior, Mr Walters, by inter alia laughing at him and or sarcastically saying repeatedly ‘thank you’ when informed of your suspension”.  Her disciplinary hearing is scheduled for 18 July.

• Read the full original of Joseph Chirume’s GroundUp report on the above story at https://www.groundup.org.za/article/workers-security-company-demand-union-recognition/

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