The EFF's Tshwane branch has called on the city to reinstate and back pay 600 waste and capacity workers whose contracts were ended in October 2020.
The group marched to the city office on Monday despite the high court in Pretoria granting the city an urgent interdict against the march on Monday morning.The interdict further barred the protesters from performing any acts of destruction of city property and ordered them to pay the costs of the application.We are here to demand that the municipality comply with the local bargaining council award that all 600 workers must be reinstated and be given their monies for 16 months.
The EFF is a political party and yet it feels it can manipulate labour processes in the city in order to drive its own political agenda.On the court interdict, he said: “The city [was] issued an interdict around 9 to 9:30am and our march was supposed to commence at 10am. Only when we were there did we see on our phones [the] interdict.
“We have complied with all the provisions and processes that were supposed to be followed have been followed. It is a legal and peaceful march. Now they are sending their interdict,” Makwala said.“The EFF is a political party and yet it feels it can manipulate labour processes in the city to drive its own political agenda.
Williams said the city works through properly constituted forums and processes when engaging on labour matters to ensure that due processes and legislation are correctly followed, “processes which the EFF assumes it can ignore”. Makwala has given the city seven days to meet their demands and said failure to do so would result in them mobilising all branches in Gauteng and heading to the municipality.READ MORE:
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