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TimesLIVE reports that the City of Tshwane refuses to budge on its stance of no salary increases despite the ongoing service delivery disruption by some members of the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu).
Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink indicated: “You can mediate many things and conversations about many things but the one issue you cannot mediate is that we don’t have R600m to grant in salary increases. The money just isn’t there.” The provision of services in the municipality has been severely affected since July, after some employees went on strike to force the city to honour the last leg for 2023/2024 of a three-year wage agreement. “What keeps me up at night is our financial position. It’s not the strike. It is that we are running out of money at an alarming rate. Last year this municipality, as did many others, made a loss in excess of R2bn in the sale of electricity, those are the critical issues. Unless we attend to those issues, get back to work and solve those problems, then the communities are going to suffer,” Brink said. He added that the disruption and attacks around the city were no longer a labour issue: “I want to emphasise that at the height of the strike about 20 to 30% of the workforce participated in the strike. Far more disruptive have been the attacks on waste removal trucks, which means contractors immediately withdraw from an area, the attack on water and electricity teams, the attempted murder, and arson at landfill sites. So the violence and the criminality have been far more disruptive than any formal labour dispute.” Brink indicated that there were catch-up plans for waste collection and public cleaning.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Shonisani Tshikalange at TimesLIVE
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