Nehawu turns to the courts over unpaid ANC salaries
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) filed court papers with the Labour Court on Sunday to force the ANC to pay salaries.
Hundreds of ANC staffers at its Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg have not been paid since October last year.
The union’s general-secretary Zola Saphetha says they believe the decision to take the ANC to court is right and correct.
“On the papers, as submitted by the union for and on behalf of its members and staff in general of the ANC, we demand that the service tendered by workers must be remunerated immediately.
“Unfortunately, the straw that broke the camel’s back was when Christmas passed with no salaries paid.”
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Saphetha has also questioned the ANC’s decision to forge ahead with its January 8 celebrations despite not being able to pay salaries.
“It is the fact that ANC has deliberately failed and elected not to honour its contractual obligations since October 2021 which made workers to go to December Festive and Christmas without any salary, but the ANC continued to gear to January 2022 celebrations, cutting cakes as if all is well and sorted with their employees.”
The ANC has been given 14 days to reply to Nehawu’s court papers.
