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BL Premium reports that an intended strike by thousands of public servants demanding higher wages hangs in limbo after the Department of Public Service & Administration (DPSA) said it had successfully interdicted the planned work stoppage.
Members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) were set to down tools and embark on an indefinite strike from Monday. A strike notice delivered to the DPSA on 23 February warned that government employees would strike if the government did not accede to workers’ demands for a 10% wage increase. “Our members throughout the country will begin the strike action at 6am on March 6 and the strike will continue until all our demands are met,” Nehawu general secretary Zola Saphetha indicated in the notice. However, in a statement on Saturday the DPSA said it had interdicted the indefinite strike Nehawu had planned to embark on from Monday. “Government believes that matters of mutual interest can still be resolved through orderly collective bargaining at the appropriate forum established for such purpose. Government will continue to call on all the trade unions to go back to the bargaining chamber to negotiate and resolve matters through dialogue,” the statement explained. Disgruntled unions, representing thousands of the more than 1.3-million public servants, have refused to take part in the 2023/2024 wage talks which began at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) in February until the wage dispute arising from the 2022/2023 negotiations is addressed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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