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Unions? wage push hit by disunity
News24
Threats of a massive public sector strike next month are being undermined by disunity in the public sector trade unions. The Public Servants Association of SA (PSA), trade unions affiliated to Cosatu and the Federation of Unions of SA (Fusa) declared a deadlock last week.
This was after government negotiators doubled down on National Treasury s stance that there was no money to foot the bill for the proposed salary increases linked to inflation plus 4%.
Instead, government s revised offer came in the form of a proposal that the funds currently allocated for pay progression, resettlement costs for workers from one province to the other and daily allowances no longer be paid out.
Talks between the government and trade unions over salary increases for South Africa’s public servants in 2021 have collapsed, with both parties failing to agree on a matter that has become a political hot potato.
South Africa has been here before and the contentious matter has become a merry-go-round, with trade unions representing public servants tabling inflation-beating salary increases every year that the government decries as being unaffordable.
This year is no different. The government and trade unions last met on Friday, 23 April at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC), where both parties negotiate terms of employment.
At the PSCBC meeting, trade unions repeated their demand for a salary increase of consumer price inflation plus 4% effectively 8.3% considering that the SA Reserve Bank expects consumer price inflation in 2021 to average 4.3%. This increase would be for all public servants, regardless of their salary and seniority levels.