Fin24 reports that an urgent interdict awarded to the City of Tshwane aimed at stopping the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) from striking in the metropolitan municipality is not stopping the union from demanding answers on payment increase agreements and other benefits at the council.

Meantime, Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is grappling with Samwu's strike in the city, which has disrupted the delivery of basic services in some areas. On Monday, Tshwane executive mayor Randall Williams advised that the metro had obtained an urgent interdict from the Labour Court preventing municipal workers from continuing with their unprotected strike. The interdict declared that Samwu and its striking members were to "immediately disperse". Samwu's Tshwane regional secretary Mpho Tladinyane said the union was determined to ensure workers received their due from the 2019 collective agreement on benchmarking and other benefits that the city had reneged on. He added that Samwu members wanted the metro to honour agreements based on the Group Life funeral cover scheme, which was meant to provide employees with funeral benefits of up to R40,000. "We were informed of the court order, and we will abide by it. The court order said we should not withdraw labour and we will not do that. Workers are back at work. There is no service disruptions,” claimed Tladinyane. He said once Samwu had a response from the city on Tuesday, regional leadership of the union would relay the message to shop stewards and members who would tell the union what must happen next after they have been given time to process and consider the city's correspondence.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khulekani Magubane at Fin24

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