CWU claims retrenchments starting at SA Post Office
The Communications Workers' Union (CWU) claims there are plans by the South African Post Office to retrench some of its employees due to operational requirements.
The claim has been denied by the SA Post Office.
"The process is at the consultation stage and SAPO will comment in due course, it is too early to comment. We will issue a release once there is agreement," says Post Office spokesperson Nobuhle Njapha.
CWU spokesperson Aubrey Tshabalala says the Post Office has no power to start a Section 189 process without a functioning board.
"We are going to tell them in the meeting that they do not have any powers to take such a decision because Post Office has no board, the board duration has expired. The first thing that must happen is that the department must speed up the process of appointing a new board swiftly, so that we can have management that is accountable. What is immediately required is that the treasury must never distances itself from this crisis.
"The government is the fundamental problem in this whole thing through bottlenecking policies, that it has created through the separation of Post Bank from Post Office so it must and therefore it must bail out Post Office in this instance, but you can only do that when you have a board where people can account.”
