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The Citizen reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has threatened to make Gauteng “ungovernable” during the G20 Summit in November if its members don’t get salary increases.
“Gauteng will be ungovernable. There will be no G20 here in Gauteng,” Lehlohonolo Maphatsoe, Samwu’s Tshwane chairperson, warned on Friday. The union is ‘outraged’ that the Tshwane council recently voted to increase the salaries of the metro’s councilors by 5%, while the salaries of the city’s employees have remained unchanged. Earlier this year, the municipality successfully applied for a bargaining council exemption to deviate from an agreement to increase worker salaries by 3.5% in 2021 and 5.4% in 2023. “It is unacceptable that elected representatives have chosen to prioritise their own pockets, even as workers endure the rising cost of living, unsafe working conditions and wage stagnation,” Maphatsoe said.
Samwu moreover wants the increase in the councillors’ salaries to be reversed. It is also demanding the reinstatement of 43 employees who were dismissed after a protest in 2023.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Gareth Cotterell at The Citizen
- Read too, Samwu threatens to bring Gauteng to a standstill if demands are not met, at EWN
- And also, Samwu slams Tshwane councillors after voting for salary hikes, at EWN
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