LETTER: Why the silence on municipal pay hike?
Government economic strategy depends on a public-sector wage freeze, which has now been flagrantly broken
02 November 2020 - 15:21
Municipal workers’ union Samwu has just succeeded in forcing through a pay increase of 6.25% plus increases in various related scales. This amounts to a settlement of roughly three times the inflation rate.
This has attracted zero press attention, but is a disaster. More than a third of municipalities are completely dysfunctional and another third just about functional. They can pay these increases only by bilking on their payments for electricity and water...
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