DEMAND FROM CITY COUNCIL
Workers want pay deductions for Samwu halted
As the crisis within the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) deepens, some of its members have requested the City of Johannesburg to withhold their subscriptions from the union. Samwu has been dogged by infighting for almost a decade as different leaders battle it out for control of the union’s coffers, which run into millions, with some facing arrest over fraud and corruption. The biggest union in the municipal sector is also being investigated by the Hawks, who seized documents and computers from its head office in a raid in 2016. Unhappy members said in a letter to the city council seen by Business Day their monies were being used to fund factional battles in the union. The council has been negotiating labour matters with two factions of the union, one led by regional leader Bafana Zungu and the other by former deputy secretary Paul Tlhabang, pending a ruling on a Labour Appeal Court application.
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