Cosatu rejects job losses and a wage freeze for public servants, calling this ‘a declaration of war’.
Although trade unions have threatened to “collapse” the public service over Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s announcement of a plan to slash R160-billion from the state’s wage bill, the government appears prepared to push ahead with the move, despite its political implications.
“We can see the intention is to go ahead and cut salaries of public servants. If the government persists on going ahead, we will be left with no choice but to take our members to the streets,” Mulaudzi said. “We are ready to fight. This is a declaration of war against public servants.” “Actually the process [of negotiating with the unions] started on Tuesday with our notification [of the plan not to implement the salary increment] at the chamber. We will go to the chamber, talk to the unions there and implement what is agreed upon,” Mbhele said.
The state wage bill will be slashed by a further R54.9-billion in 2021-22 and by R67.5-billion in 2022-23, partially by freezing public servants’ salaries, as well as by offering severance packages and early retirement in a bid to trim the state’s workers by 30000 jobs. President Cyril Ramaphosa also apparently gave his party’s alliance partner, Cosatu, no indication of the plan to slash the public sector wage bill, when he met its central executive committee on the eve of Mboweni’s budget speech.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union , one of Cosatu’s biggest public-sector affiliates, called on Ramaphosa to take action against Mboweni, claiming the finance minister had “gone rogue”.
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