ERMELO – Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) marched to the Department of Public Works to handover a memorandum to four security companies who they claim are bashing their freedom of association and flagrantly flouting industry main collective agreement on October 19.

According to information from SATAWU, the four companies employed a combined total of 1162 workers, the majority of which elected to rally behind SATAWU to highlight their issues.

“In a strange phenomenon two of the security companies, in spite of trade union representatives in the context of labour laws, refused blatantly to recognise the union,” Mr Sipho Mabaso, the spokesman of SATAWU claimed.

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According to SATAWU all four companies can hardly comply with provisions of the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector’s main collective agreement.

“These companies refuse to pay a basic salary, annual bonus and annual leave prescribed in the agreement.

“The companies further deduct provident fund from employees’ salary, yet such deducted funds are only intermittently remitted to fund administrators, if at all,” SATAWU alleged.

Read the rest of the complaints SATAWU had in the Highvelder newspaper.