Legislature staff in Gauteng continue strike for higher wages
About 150 workers in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature have downed tools over disputes with the employer over wages and salary increases. The strike enters day three on Tuesday as workers affiliated to the National Education‚ Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) have been demanding a 9.5% salary increase from the employer. "We are striking because of our issue with salary negotiations, which have deadlocked. The [legislature] management is offering a 7.4% increase and our workers are demanding 9.5% increase," said Nehawu’s branch secretary in the legislature‚ Kgomotso Sekulane. "We did our benchmarking with other legislatures in the sector and also did scientific research of what is happening in the legislative sector across the province including the cost of living in Gauteng." On Friday‚ the workers delivered a memorandum of demands to the executives in the legislature and gave them three working days to respond. Failing that, they would call on the legislature’s other worker...
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