Tshwane vows not to bow to Samwu in applying wage deal
DA-led metro says it will not let union blackmail it into implementing agreement immediately
27 October 2021 - 15:40
The DA-run Tshwane metro vowed on Wednesday it would not be blackmailed by the ANC-aligned SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) into implementing immediately the recently signed multiterm pay agreement, which it says has “significant implications” for the capital.
The party dismissed Samwu’s “unlawful strike action” in the municipality as “largely political” and an attempt to make the city ungovernable by creating instability a few days before municipal elections on November 1...
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