‘Currently Sita on the table has offered 5%. The PSA has lowered the demand from 12% right down to 7.5%. We've taken Sita’s position back to our members and unfortunately, they've rejected it totally,’ says Claude Naiker, spokesperson for the Public Servants Association.
JIMMY MOYAHA: Yesterday, the Public Servants Association announced that they’d be embarking on a strike following a deadlocked salary negotiation. Particularly with regard to the State Information Technology Agency .
This prompted us to declare a dispute and go out on a full-blown strike. So where are we sitting at this stage, currently, Sita on the table has offered 5%. The unions have, or rather the PSA, have lowered the demand from 12% right down to 7.5%. We’ve taken Sita’s position back to our members and unfortunately, they’ve rejected it totally.
I think we have sympathy for those departments, especially for the public who are procuring ID documents and collecting grants and so forth. Unfortunately, this has come to a situation where industrial action was the last resort for the PSA. JIMMY MOYAHA: Before I let you go, Claude, you touched on something around the service delivery aspects that may be affected as well. Are we saying that this strike could potentially have a negative impact on the ability of Sassa to pay its grants?
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