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Samwu to officially reject ’anti-worker, pro-employer’ offer

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Samwu is expected to decide today whether its members will accept or reject salary increases of between 3.5% and 4% over three years proposed by the wage talks facilitator.

The union, which represents the majority of municipal workers, can either head to mutual arbitration or a strike after starting the process of balloting simultaneously with consulting its members.On June 10, Burwana-Bisiwe tabled her proposal before Samwu, the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union and the SA Local Government Association .

In terms of the proposal, municipal workers’ benefits and conditions of service that ordinarily increase by virtue of a pay hikes will not be adjusted upward in the first year of the agreement. After Burwana-Bisiwe tabled her proposal, Samwu told municipal workers to prepare themselves for the upcoming war with their employer.

 

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