KwaDukuza services halted amid week-long workers strike
KwaDukuza officials say a week-long strike by
municipal workers has led to the shutdown of several services.
"Waste removal, maintenance of any kind, including services where there are no lifeguards [are affected]. All employees have not been able to attend to their duties," said KwaDukuza's Sifiso Zulu.
Workers belonging to union, SAMWU, downed tools over the municipality's job grading process, calling the system unfair.
Zulu said the municipality is still studying the union's demands.
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"When it comes to their demands [at] this stage, one cannot tell what the outcome would be because the leadership of municipality is still engaged in terms of looking at [what] was submitted on Monday so that they will be able to respond to the union."
Meanwhile, Deon Viljoen, from the Dolphin Coast Residents and Ratepayers Association, says that residents in Stanger have been affected the most.
"Well, the biggest thing that's visible is the waste. The staff didn't come to work, so waste is not being collected," said Viljoen.
"People put the waste out to be collected and then dogs and vagrants and whatever get involved with it and it becomes a big mess."
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