The City of Tshwane is continuing to root out employees taking part in the unlawful South African Municipal Workers' Union strike, giving most of its electricity switching teams until Monday morning to report acts of intimidation or face possible sanctions.
This forced the city to take the"extraordinary step" of issuing 89 letters to the affected teams.
"The switching teams are the first people to respond to electricity outages. Their duty, primarily, is to isolate faults and issue permits for testing or a working permit if there is a need," the city said. "They're also responsible for restoration of power on network faults. The switching teams, who play a critical role in the electricity value chain, absconded from work for the second week, claiming to be intimidated by their striking colleagues.
"The city has instructed them, in writing, to identify the persons/employees who are intimidating or preventing them from performing their duties. Furthermore, they were instructed that failure to identify their alleged intimidators will result in them being deemed to be part of the unprotected and unlawful strike and were warned that all the applicable provisions to employees who are on strike will be applicable to them.
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