Samwu and retirement fund reach stalemate over two-pot system
Samwu accuses the fund of dragging its feet in processing its members’ applications to access a portion of their retirement savings
25 November 2024 - 16:03
Cracks are widening between SA’s largest union in the local government sector and the Municipal Workers Retirement Fund (MWRF), after a meeting called to iron out issues was cut short as it was not “helpful”.
The national office bearers (NOBs) of the SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), which represents more than 160,000 of the country’s estimated 300,000 municipal employees, held a meeting with MWRF bosses earlier this month...
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