SALARY INCREASES
Walter Sisulu University lecturers to strike over wage talks
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) management is facing a total shutdown across all campuses on Wednesday. The university and its teaching staff are deadlocked in talks about a wage increase, with employees seeking an 8% hike and management offering 6.3%. As many as 2,000 employees took to the streets in Eastern Cape towns where WSU has branches on Tuesday morning after wage talks collapsed. Union leaders held gatherings at the university’s four campuses to report on the stalemate and to declare a full-blown protected strike. Vice-chancellor Rob Midgley has insisted the standard "no-work no-pay" rule will apply for all the strikes. Mcebisi Jojo of the National Health, Education and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) said there was only one campus where workers had reported for duty — Nelson Mandela Drive — but these employees would join Wednesday’s strike. He said the campus was not represented in the mass meeting held at the Ibika campus in Butterworth on Monday. "Only one campus is reporti...
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