Johannesburg’s waste management company Pikitup has made a new offer to its striking employees‚ and the two parties are holding a meeting on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the offer‚ according to Paul Tlhabang ‚ the South African Municipal Workers Union deputy general secretary of the Gauteng region.
Tlhabang would not discuss the details of the new offer but said there were serious issues in the offer that the union disagreed with and wanted clarity from the management of Pikitup on these.
Tlhabang told Times Media before the meeting started that he expected it to take about three hours and promised to be able to give details of the proceedings after 6pm on Tuesday.
Pikitup could not be reached to confirm the meeting.
About 4‚000 members of Samwu are in the fifth week of an unprotected strike‚ which has left rubbish uncollected in most of Johannesburg’s residential areas.
Pikitup contingency measures are being frustrated by intimidation of non-striking and contracted workers and the company on Monday night called on security firms to help by protecting and escorting contracted workers when they collect rubbish.
The union wants alleged salary disparities between city entities corrected and is demanding that the salaries of its members be increased to between R8‚000 and R10‚000 a month.
Both sides claim this agreement concluded in November between the union and Pikitup had been violated.
The strike is the third one since the agreement according to which the City of Johannesburg was supposed to conduct a salary benchmarking exercise.
Samwu and its officials are facing possible sanctions from the Labour Court‚ after allegedly failing to abide by multiple interdicts brought against the strike.
Samwu‚ Pikitup take another shot at ending strike
Johannesburg’s waste management company Pikitup has made a new offer to its striking employees‚ and the two parties are holding a meeting on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the offer‚ according to Paul Tlhabang ‚ the South African Municipal Workers Union deputy general secretary of the Gauteng region.
Tlhabang would not discuss the details of the new offer but said there were serious issues in the offer that the union disagreed with and wanted clarity from the management of Pikitup on these.
Tlhabang told Times Media before the meeting started that he expected it to take about three hours and promised to be able to give details of the proceedings after 6pm on Tuesday.
Pikitup could not be reached to confirm the meeting.
About 4‚000 members of Samwu are in the fifth week of an unprotected strike‚ which has left rubbish uncollected in most of Johannesburg’s residential areas.
Pikitup contingency measures are being frustrated by intimidation of non-striking and contracted workers and the company on Monday night called on security firms to help by protecting and escorting contracted workers when they collect rubbish.
The union wants alleged salary disparities between city entities corrected and is demanding that the salaries of its members be increased to between R8‚000 and R10‚000 a month.
Both sides claim this agreement concluded in November between the union and Pikitup had been violated.
The strike is the third one since the agreement according to which the City of Johannesburg was supposed to conduct a salary benchmarking exercise.
Samwu and its officials are facing possible sanctions from the Labour Court‚ after allegedly failing to abide by multiple interdicts brought against the strike.
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