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Fin24 reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) will march to the Union Buildings in September in protest against the government's 2% wage offer at the public service wage talks.
This was resolved at the union’s special national executive committee meeting last week. Popcru has an estimated 120,000 members nationwide. The union said its program of action would also include lunchtime pickets across all police stations, correctional centres, and traffic institutions. Popcru warned that if this action was unsuccessful, the union would be left with "no option but to withdraw labour". The union said in a statement that it was still reeling from the government's decision to renege on the 2018 Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council binding agreement. That agreement included increases ranging between 6% and 7%. "This has reduced these workers to financial hardships while basic commodities continue to rise on a daily basis," the statement indicated. It advised that at the planed march, Popcru members would head directly to President Cyril Ramaphosa to demand that public servants be paid "what is owed to them", an offer on a baseline that was not less than 10%, and a reversal of all "austerity" measures in the public service. "All vacant positions [need] to be filled and the employment of qualified graduates to beef up the post establishment of the public service, and we further demand that no state-owned enterprise must be privatised," Popcru’s statement asserted.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khulekani Magubane at Fin24
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