BusinessLive reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), which is behind an illegal wage strike in Tshwane, engaged with its members on Monday about the way forward, after the metro filed an application to be exempted from implementing a pay deal reached by parties in the bargaining council in 2021.

The industrial action, which has been declared unlawful and illegal by the Labour Court, will enter its third week on Wednesday. It began with a march by Samwu members to Tshwane House on 26 July during which they demanded that the city should implement a 5.4% pay increase reached in the SA Local Government Bargaining Council (SALGBC) in 2021. The Tshwane metro, which is run by a DA-led multiparty coalition, has argued that it does not have funds to implement the agreement. Samwu general secretary Dumisane Magagula indicated that a statement would be released after it had held discussions. The city has dismissed 93 employees for taking part in the illegal strike and “more dismissal letters are in the process of being issued” to striking workers.

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

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