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Pretoria News reports that the City of Tshwane has come off the back foot to win a battle against the strike action by its workers after the Labour Court on Friday granted it a permanent interdict against the unrest.
The cash-strapped metro was relieved by the ruling because earlier in the week the SA Local Government Bargaining Council (Salgbc) dismissed its application to be exempted from implementing the final leg of a three-year wage deal reached in September 2021. Workers in the capital municipality have been on an extensive strike, which has entered its eighth week, demanding a 5.4% pay increase in terms of the 2021 agreement. Salgbc last week ordered the municipality to fork out millions to honour the pay increases. Services within the municipality have been severely affected with uncollected waste, closed down health clinics, unavailability of buses, water and electricity disruptions and all fuelled by violence. City of Tshwane spokesperson Lindela Mashigo said he trusted that the strikers would comply with the permanent court order and return to work to improve service delivery. He added that the municipality’s management was not backing down from issuing dismissal letters to those who took part in the unprotected strike. He reported that to date 123 workers had been issued with the letters, with more to come. However the SA Municipal Workers’ Union has vowed to defend the fired workers and make sure they could return to work.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mashudu Sadike at Pretoria News
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