Municipal Workers Union SAMWU says the City of Tshwane must pay workers their money and stop wasting funds on legal fees to block salary increases.
File Image: SAMWU workers during strike action.
South Africa Municipal Workers Union says the City of Tshwane must pay workers their money and stop wasting funds on legal fees to block salary increases. That’s after the South African Local Government Bargaining Council dismissed the city’s application to exempt it from paying salary increases for the 2023/24 financial year.
“It’s a waste of time … city has already spent millions on lawyers, only to lose the battle,” says Mpho Tladinyane, Samwu Gauteng Secretary. But the City is adamant that it won’t back down. It’s taking the Bargaining Council outcome on review.Although the City of Tshwane says it doesn’t have money to pay salary increases, Samwu believes significant evidence presented at the Barging Council proves otherwise., the fight for salary increases will intensify if the city doesn’t pay workers.
If the City of Tshwane loses its bid at the Labour Court, it still has another shot at the Appeals Court to block salary increases. And while the municipality and the union are at loggerheads over salary increments, service delivery continues to suffer as workers are on a go-slow, leaving thousands of Tshwane residents frustrated.
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