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BL Premium reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) is demanding an above-inflation wage increase of 12.5% for 2023/24 for its more than 235,000 members on the basis that public servants have not received any real increases over the past four years.
In a statement on Sunday, the PSA said that during a special Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) meeting on Friday, the government proposed a 4.7% pay hike on a sliding scale in year one, with increases in line with the consumer price index in the second and third years. A coalition of disgruntled public service unions, including Nehawu, Sapu, Popcru and Denosa, indicated on Thursday that they would not be participating in the PSCBC process. They want the 2022/2023 wage impasse resolved first before entering into talks on pay for 2023/2024. They are still angry after the government unilaterally implemented a 3% pay hike for public servants in 2022. Three teachers’ unions – Sadtu, Naptosa and Satu – broke ranks and accepted the 3% increase, which included an extension of a R1,000 after-tax cash gratuity. The disgruntled unions, which are demanding a 10% increase, said they would serve the government with a seven-day strike notice on 22 February in support of their demands for higher wages for 2022/2023. On Friday, the PSA’s Reuben Maleka commented: “We must negotiate for the 2023/2024 financial year because we are in a state where our members have not received any real increase, so we won’t stand outside the ring. We must be part of this process because if we don’t, it’s our members that will suffer. We need to improve their conditions.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Read too, PSA encounters new hurdle in pay talks as state tables 4.7% offer, at Moneyweb
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