Nehawu threatens to cripple revenue collection as it prepares for Sars strike
The National Education, Health, and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) has vowed to cripple operations at the South African Revenue Service amid deadlocked wage negotiations.
The union is demanding salaries to be adjusted based on the October 2021 CPI plus 7% across the board.
It wants the agreement to be backdated to April this year.
Other demands include equal medical aid and housing allowances, as well as 10 days per annum of pandemic leave.
This while Sars is set on a zero-percent increase.
Nehawu held a media briefing at Kibler Park on Tuesday where general secretary Zola Sapetha confirmed the union would hold lunchtime pickets at the start of next week.
This will be escalated to a full-blown strike on Wednesday.
“We will refer the system unworkable so it means there will be a huge impact because there will be no revenue collection, there will be no day-to-day activities that will be pursued,” said Sapetha.
“We will make sure that there will be no service rendered to anyone and it’s a pity that it will affect the communities.”
The union believes the tax authority’s refusal to come to the table is informed by government's bid to freeze public sector wage increases.
Nehawu is the second union to announce plans to strike after the Public Servants Association (PSA) also registered its discontent.
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