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News24 reports that municipal workers are back at work after the City of Johannesburg and SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) reached an agreement on Friday.
Workers had been on strike since Thursday, when they shut down the M1 inner city highway. On Friday, they marched to the municipal offices, where councillors were holding an extraordinary council meeting. The protest was over the Political Facilitated Agreement (PFA), instated in 2016, which was aimed at levelling employee salaries. Mayor Mpho Phalatse and other mayoral committee members met with the union and addressed protesters during a downpour. According to Samwu’s Gauteng secretary, Mpho Tladinyane, some workers had not been paid, but the City undertook to pay them by December. Tladinyane reported: “Things are fine. We have agreed to a process. A task team is going to look into [the matter] from 14 to 18 November. From there, the City endeavoured to pay workers – at least some portions of money – by the end of December.” He went on to say: "They indicated they don't have enough money [to pay now] and will wait for the adjusted budget between January and February. Once finalised, we will know how much. By March, we should be able to say all workers have been paid." In a joint statement on Friday, Phalatse and MMC for group corporate and shared services Leah Knott said the multiparty government would meet with Samwu leaders this week to "fully deliberate on the issues at hand".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alex Patrick at News24
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