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Demonstrators picket outside Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, 9 March 2023, as part of National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union strike action. So far four deaths have been reported directly connected to the strike. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen
The Labour Appeals Court has rejected the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union application to appeal government’s strike interdict.members intensified their industrial action which has been marred by violence and intimidation.Public servants affiliated with the union have been staging countrywide protests since last Monday over a wage dispute with government.Nehawu on Sunday vowed to intensify its public service strike until the workers’ demands are met by government.
Nehawu is ordered to inform its members and officials and all persons to whom it had given notice of the strike in every province, including but not limited to every hospital and clinic in South Africa at which it has members within the essential services,” the court ruled.
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