NEWSFLASH: Cosatu demands safer transport and better working conditionsfor museum workers By Karabo Mafolo
On Monday, Iziko Museum of South Africa employees and management failed to reach an agreement regarding pay increases and benefits of staff, so on Thursday the employees, alongside hundreds of Cosatu members, marched to Parliament to hand over a memorandum which was accepted by Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Lechesa Tsenoli.
“[These] public entities are the vanguard in protecting and preserving our heritage, culture and history as a people of South Africa,” reads the memo. The common thread in the grievances raised by Iziko, Artscape and SAHRA is that their employers are keeping some workers as contact workers for years without giving them any benefits.The demands include that all contract workers across all the entities be insourced, that they receive equal benefits and that a centralised bargaining forum be created for all the entities.
“Cosatu has been involved in negotiations with the government for more than 10 years to improve the rail service and very little has been done so far by the metro rail. This is why our Cosatu members are referring to Metrorail as metrofail,” reads the memorandum.
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