💸 The government’s 7.5% salary increase offer is spitting in the faces of public sector workers, with Nehawu saying it’s far below the Consumer Price Index. nehawustrikeupdate
Striking Nehawu workers blockade the entrance to the Edenvale Hospital, 8 March 2023. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen
Despite unions representing more than 53% of the public service’s over 1.2 million workers accepting the offer and claiming it as victory, labour analyst Mamokgethi Molopyane said 7.5% was nowhere near a victory compared to their list of demands.“It’s not a win, but it’s an agreeable offer. There are many concessions that had to be made regarding some of the issues they raised,” Molopyane said.
“On 14 March, a settlement agreement was reached and the strike was suspended. The settlement agreement was that there would be an augmentation on the 3% that government had unilaterally implemented. But a few days later the government reneged on that agreement.”Nkolozi said government was misleading workers with its offer, “due to the fact that government is taking the gratuity money that workers have been getting into the salary baseline, it’s not new money. The only new money is 2.8% .
“The only difference now is that it is being translated from a non-pensionable cash-gratuity into a pensionable salary on the baseline.“In the past, we have argued that workers must reject the cash-gratuity primarily because it was stalling the wage increases for a multi-term period, and it was inflicting losses on the pensions of workers.”
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