‘During Covid we were called heroes — is this how you treat heroes?’ Health workers at the embattled Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital are demanding a 10% wage increase as part of a national public sector strike.
Deputy regional chairperson of the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers, Mziyanda Ndevu, said: “The picket started two weeks back when all the staff, nurses, porters, your admin clerk, all the employees came together, because they feel like they are being insulted by this government with the 3%.
“These workers don’t even have houses… look at the price of bread and oil — most workers are in debt. Our children get rejected for NSFAS because we are supposedly earning well, but most people can’t afford to put their children through tertiary education,” said Ndevu. Meanwhile, civil servants are overly indebted; a 2007 study found that according to data provided by Persal, the total debt owed to microlenders by public servants amounted to R13.3-million during the 2006/2007 financial year. Of this amount, R3.3-million is attributed to employees in national departments. The balance is attributed to the microlending debt of public servants based in provincial departments.
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