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GroundUp reports that some eThekwini municipal workers downed tools for a second day on Wednesday. This followed a march by hundreds of municipal workers, members of the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), in Durban’s city centre on Tuesday.
According to the employees, their wages do not match those of workers in other metropoles like Ekurhuleni and Tshwane. Khayo Mpungose from Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda’s office accepted the memorandum on Tuesday. Samwu Xolani Dube said that the union’s analysis suggested that municipal workers in other metros earned “far more” than they did in eThekwini. For example, a general worker in eThekwini earned about R10,000 a month while general workers in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni earned about R13,900, Dube claimed. “We are all metropolitan municipality workers […] We will be waiting for the eThekwini municipality to respond to our memorandum and won’t do any work,” said Dube. But on Wednesday most municipal services seemed to be operating normally, with only a few workers participating in the stoppage. Municipal spokesperson Gugu Sisilana dismissed claims by the union of a city-wide shutdown and said only about 500 of the city’s 27,000 workforce had participated in Tuesday’s unprotected strike.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tsoanelo Sefoloko at GroundUp
- Read too, Thousands of eThekwini municipal workers down tools, at SABC News
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