For now, SA has among the most cosseted workers in the world – for the increasingly few, that is, who can obtain paid, regular remuneration. Because it is exceedingly difficult to get rid of staff, private sector employers look to mechanisation or outsourcing. That leaves the public sector, where job growth, salaries and benefits have grown steadily since 1994.
Because of demographic quotas, getting a public service job has little to do with merit and much to do with ticking the boxes for race and gender. That’s just the first hurdle. There is an astonishing level of societal indulgence of union militancy. It’s taken almost three decades for a Labour Appeal Court ruling to formalise, in a ruling this week, the bloody obvious: that striking employees armed with weapons — in this case, sticks, clubs, sjamboks, and PVC rods — can be fired for intimidating other staff and the public.
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