Cosatu’s national strike on 7 October
- Published on 4 Oct 2016
- HR Pulse News Desk
The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is mobilising its members to join the COSATU National Strike on the 7th October 2016. This is a protected strike and as such workers who participate in this action will be protected.
SAMWU will be demanding the end of casualisation of work particularly in local government. Casualisation and privatising municipal services has resulted in exploitation of workers through the use of tenders and the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP). SAMWU is of the view that EPWP workers are rendering municipal services and as such they should be employed directly and permanently by municipalities with all the benefits that municipal workers are currently enjoying.
The country’s unemployment and poverty levels are currently at unacceptably high levels particularly among the youth. SAMWU will be demanding the creation of decent jobs for South Africans. Thwy also want to see an end to precarious work in the country and have a situation wherein people have decent and well paying jobs. SAMWU is of the view that the national minimum wage will go a long way in addressing issues of inequality in the country.
SAMWU will also be fighting for the scrapping of the dysfunctional and irrational e-tolling system.
