SAMWU members to protest for salary hikes in Tshwane
South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) members will demonstrate outside Tshwane House in Centurion on Monday morning - after wage negations deadlocked on Friday.
The workers' union is demanding the same wage increases as those approved for the group heads and divisional heads who are permanently employed in the capital and fall under the scope of the Local Government Bargaining Council.
SAMWU's Regional Secretary, Mpho Tladinyane, says the city approved an 18% salary increase only to group heads but excluding the lower-level employees.
"Now workers are simply saying as cleaners, as general workers and as admin officers we demand the same 18%," says Tladinyane.
He adds members of the union will continue with their protest outside the headquarters of the City Council until city officials address them.
It is reported that city bus drivers belonging to the union, have abandoned buses in the streets of the Pretoria Central Business District (CBD).
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