If the government does not honour the wage agreement made in 2018, public service unions will go to court, Cosatu says
Public-sector unions have rejected the government’s new wage offer for the 2020/2021 financial year as time runs out for the negotiations, with new salaries taking effect on April 1. Mugwena Maluleke, chief negotiator for union federation Cosatu’s public-sector unions, and Reuben Maleka, assistant GM of the Public Servants Association of SA , said the government’s offer was rejected.
To be able to fund these 4.4% increases, the government proposed using the funds that would have been used to give 1.5% performance-related increases in 2021/2022. If that was not agreed to, it would not be able to fund the 4.4% increases for 2020/2021, Maluleke said. Maluleke said the Cosatu unions have agreed to continue negotiating with the government in an attempt to convince it that it is not in the best interest of collective bargaining to renege on the multi-term agreement signed in 2018, and that the agreement has to be honoured.
However, he emphasised that all internal mechanisms have to be used before venturing to the courts, and that the unions would be consulting members on Friday and over the weekend.
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