Benson Ngqentsu | Public sector unions must not back down in salary negotiations
The writing is on the wall. The organised section of the working class in the public service is not succumbing to the dictates of the neoliberal and austerity forces.
Neoliberalism, as a model of a free market capitalism’s basic tenet, is amongst others based on greatly reduced government social spending, deregulation and privatisation. Thus at the recent salary negotiations, the government insisted on the 2% salary increase as a final offer against the new demand by organised labour from 10% to 8%, a position which led to organised labour declaring a dispute with the PSBC.
Government has a choice to make – does it want to risk a strike of 1.3 million crucial public sector workers or does it want to create a virtuous cycle of growth by putting adequate money into the pockets of 1.3 million workers, stimulating the economy and injecting much-needed relief into local economies, communities and families?Inside Labour | Turmoil looms in public sector wage dispute
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