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SABC News reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is expected to march to the National Treasury in Pretoria on Friday.
The union will be demanding that government must top conducting business with private security companies that are reportedly not complying with collective agreements. Numsa’s Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said it was a disgrace that workers in the security sector had to protest for what was lawfully and rightfully theirs. She indicated that they would be handing over a memorandum of demands, emphasising that security companies were defrauding workers by deducting money for medical insurance and pension funds, but not paying it over to the relevant service provider. “This means that when workers have to claim for medical insurance or pension fund, there are not enough funds or no funds at all. Numsa is taking this issue to the National Treasury because it has the power to revoke these contracts, and blacklist companies that are failing to comply. There are a number of companies that are not complying with the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector,” Hlubi-Majola said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by SABC News
- Read Numsa’s press statement in the above regard at Numsa News
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