BusinessLive reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has vowed to intensify its crippling industrial action in Tshwane, which saw the entire CBD gridlocked on Monday, should the employer not table a revised wage offer by Tuesday.  

Senior managers at the metro got an 18% increase and the workers are demanding a similar increase.  Samwu regional secretary Mpho Tladinyane on Monday said a general workers’ meeting would be called on Tuesday morning to deliberate on an anticipated offer from the employer.  “Workers are demanding a fair treatment as those of group and divisional heads.  If certain employees can be paid an 18% salary increase surely general workers and cleaners should also be paid a similar increase,” he argued.  Tladinyane added that if no agreement was reached to break the deadlock, the union would intensify its strike action.  That could see all of the city’s 19,000-strong workforce downing tools in a bid to force the employer to accede to the demand for an 18% wage increase, backdated to 2017.  Municipal workers are also disgruntled over the council’s decision that will see city manager Moeketsi Mosola receiving a R7.5m payout to step down at the end of July.  The agreement between Mosola and the city council was reached on Thursday in a closed sitting by the Tshwane metro.  

• Read the full original of Luyolo Mkentane’s report on the above story at BusinessLive

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