Municipal union ‘still deciding’ on another eThekwini strike
The Municipal and Allied Trade Union South
Africa says it's still deciding whether to down tools over employment
issues.
This would mean round two of a workers' strike eThekwini.
"We are busy balloting and once we are done with that, that's when we are going to pronounce,” Matusa Deputy Secretary Thulani Ngwenya told Newswatch on Monday.
“So once we've sent the 48-hour notice and there is no response to our demand, that is when we will agree that there is a looming strike in eThekwini."
The municipality is still picking up the pieces from the almost three-week-long Samwu labour action that halted refuse collection services across the city.
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Ngwenya said their concerns include organisational rights and permanent employment for workers under the Expanded Public Works Programme.
"EPWP, some of them are going for pension. We've been recently joined by the security guard and cleaner who are also been exploited. We said they must also be absorbed by the very employer because they are doing the work, but somebody is doing the work and making money off them."
