Nehawu has issued an ultimatum to the Limpopo government, in particular the premier’s office, over a number of long-standing issues.
|||Johannesburg - The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) is threatening to strike against the Limpopo government over a number of long-standing issues.
“Workers in Limpopo will not sit down and watch this neo-liberal policy stance by our government which will turn public servants into slaves,” Nehawu’s secretariat said on Tuesday.
“Many promises have been made by government on several occasions, but they are never fulfilled. Nehawu has thus issued an ultimatum to government in particular the premier’s office to resolve all these challenges with immediate effect.”
The union’s demands include resolving challenges around the training nurses, the re-employment of outsourced security services, laundries and kitchens, the finalisation of the parking bay policy, and the scrapping of what is says are unfair housing rental fees.
“Furthermore, we are furious at the introduction of the Limpopo Personnel Management Framework which has literally put all departments in some form of administration by centralising all powers to appoint in the treasury's office.
“This is done in an endeavor to reduce the total cost of employee compensation at the risk of compromising service delivery and workers are compelled to do multiple tasks that are meant for more than one employee,” the union said.
It plans on starting with lunchtime picketing and marches, which will see employees working according to their job description. It may eventually result in the shut down of the public service.
Labour Bureau