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IOL News reports that the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) in Tshwane has threatened to use the 2026 local government elections to hold political parties accountable for refusing to pay outstanding salary increases of 3.5% and 5.4%.
These increases, part of a collective wage agreement for the 2021/22 and 2023/2024 financial years, have been a bone of contention between the union and the City of Tshwane. The workers' demands were aired on Wednesday during a march to Tshwane House, where they gave the city a seven-day ultimatum to respond. The demands included implementing the outstanding salary increments and reinstating unfairly dismissed colleagues with immediate effect.
Samwu’s Lehlogonolo Maphatsoe accused the current administration, led by ActionSA, ANC, and EFF, of hypocrisy. He claimed they had previously lied to workers by demanding the reinstatement of dismissed workers and the implementation of the salary increases when the DA-led administration was in power. “It is now their time to implement and they are doing something else,” he said. Deputy Mayor Eugene Modise, who received the workers’ memorandum of demands, said the city proposed a phased payment approach for the 3.5% salary increase to Samwu leadership, starting with junior staff, followed by middle staff, and finally senior staff, which the union reportedly agreed to.
However, Maphatsoe denied this, saying the city executive offered once-off payments in two instalments scheduled for 2026 and 2027, which the union rejected. “We want the 3.5% to be implemented into our normal salaries, not as a once-off payment,” he said. Modise said the city would review the cases of 43 workers who were dismissed and consider rehiring those who were unfairly dismissed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Rapula Moatshe at IOL News
- Read too, Tshwane municipal workers demand salary increases, at GroundUp
- And also, Tshwane metro says it’s awaiting investigation into 44 dismissed Samwu workers, at EWN
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