Municipal workers affiliated with the SAMWU vow to continue strike until demands are met.
On Thursday, thousands of City of Johannesburg employees disrupted traffic on the M1 and M2 highways in Braamfontein and the Johannesburg CBD, bringing the area to a standstill.
The striking workers are demanding back payments totalling R10.3 billion, which they claim have been owed to them since 1995. SAMWU Deputy Regional Chairperson Lebogang Ndawo stated that the workers are frustrated because the current pay category assigned to the municipality does not align with the new category that should be in place.
Ndawo says, “The payments towards R10.3 billion—the workers were saying to the city we understand it’s a lot of money, and we do not want to cripple the city. But on the 31st of July, the council passed that the city can now move to category 10 municipalities, but they did not have any budget.
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