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Fin24 reports that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) intends to shut down SA Post Office (SAPO) branches around the country on Thursday and Friday as workers demand a 15% wage increase and solutions to an ongoing medical aid contributions crisis.
SAPO has been failing to keep up with employees' medical aid contributions to its medical aid provider, Medipos, with the most recent conflict having taken place earlier this month. On Thursday, the union plans to march from the Union Buildings to the Department of Communications and the National Treasury in Pretoria. In the Western Cape, the CWU will march to Parliament with its demands, which include a 15% salary increase and an end to the medical aid contributions crisis. There will also be mass picket events at Post Office branches in all nine provinces around the country. The union said the pickets and demonstrations would continue into Friday and escalate to "phase two", which would include looking into the possibility of a strike, if SAPO management did not heed its demands. CWU general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said Cosatu and the SA Communist Party would support the mobilisation. He said talks with ANC structures for their support were ongoing. A SAPO spokesperson previously advised that the entity was struggling to pay medical aid contributions for November because of its financial troubles, but said that it was communicating openly with staff and working towards a solution.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khulekani Magubane at Fin24
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