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Popcru members to march to Union Buildings on Tuesday over dissatisfaction with government’s 3% final wage offer

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popcruBL Premium reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), representing 160,000 police, corrections and traffic officials, is to march to the Union Buildings on Tuesday to submit a list of demands to President Cyril Ramaphosa in response to the government’s final pay rise offer.

The government tabled a final 3% offer at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) on 30 August, but according to Popcru spokesperson Richard Mamabolo, union members have rejected the offer as they want an inflation-beating increase. Public service unions were given 21 days to seek a mandate from their members on the 3% offer, which includes a R1,000 after-tax cash gratuity payable to all the more than 1.3-million public servants until March 2023. The unions initially demanded a 10% increase when talks began in May, but trimmed the figure down to 6.5% in an effort to reach a pay deal without having to strike. Mamabolo said the union “fervently rejected” the 3% offer as workers have had no increases since 2020. Nehawu’s December Mavuso said about the offer: “We are finalising our mandating process.” Sadtu’s Mugwena Maluleke indicated: “We are going back to the bargaining council on September 23. We will know then how many of our members have accepted or rejected the revised offer.” Reuben Maleka of the Public Servants Association commented: “We are waiting for the final audit of our mandating process. We will know by Monday how many members are in support of the 3% and how many are rejecting it. We have until September 28 to pronounce our formal position at the PSCBC.”

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive


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