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BusinessLive reports that the cash-strapped SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) is gunning for R29m that it accuses the City of Johannesburg of illegally withholding in contravention of the Labour Relations Act.
Samwu declared insolvency six months ago, stating that it had been struggling to pay staff salaries since August 2018. The current Samwu national leadership under general secretary Koena Ramotlou accused the previous leaders, who were booted out from the union through a motion of no confidence in April, of presiding over the disappearance of R160m from Samwu coffers. On Thursday, the Samwu leadership and its members marched to the Joburg municipal chambers, where they delivered a memorandum of grievances to the metro led by DA mayor Herman Mashaba. Among other grievances, Samwu accused the city of unilaterally stopping depositing subscription funds — equating to R29m — from members to the union. The union in the region has been rocked by a leadership dispute that saw one of the factions signing a historic pact with Mashaba and rival union Imatu in August. The current leadership has repudiated the pact. But, high on the agenda was the issue of the R29m. “It must come to an end that they must interfere with the business of the union. They have done this act of keeping the money here to collapse [and] weaken Samwu, so that Samwu cannot be united,” Ramotlou claimed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
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