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Trade unions attach municipality assets over outstanding pay and benefits
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says it wants its trucks back and will settle the bill, while government steps in to save Kopanongâs assets being auctioned by municipal workers union. 13:49
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The Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (Demawusa) last week attached assets belonging to the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality over an outstanding R8.8 million in pay owed to 36 workers.
The outstanding payment dates back to 2015 for the workers who were insourced immediately after the Labour Relations Act amendments, which require temporary workers to be permanently placed after three months.
Concern mounts for Eastern Cape health workers
16 Dec 2020
Provincial co-ordinator of Demawusa Siphiwo Ndunyana addressing workers addresses protesting members of the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of South Africa outside the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s offices. (Photographs by Sibongile Portia Jonas)
Labour struggles have been a central issue in 2020 as retrenchments and strikes surged amid Covid-19 infections and deaths. Three unions representing frontline workers have called for an urgent intervention by employers.
The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (Demawusa) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have called on the government to employ community health workers, who work on outsourced one-year contracts, and casual municipal workers on a permanent basis.
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