Union march to Tshwane House, unhappy with outsourcing
Deputy regional chairperson of Samwu Tshwane, Precious Theledi vented her frustration saying that “the City is outsourcing too much, we have more than capable workers here to do these jobs but the City insists on using outside people”.
Unhappy with mayor Randall Williams and Tshwane metro’s outsourcing jobs, scores of South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) members marched to Tshwane House to hand over a memorandum of demands on Friday.
Accompanied by SAPS and Tshwane metro police (TMPD), union members took to the streets singing struggle songs, blowing whistles, banging street signs, carrying posters and chanting their demands.
Deputy regional chairperson of Samwu Tshwane, Precious Theledi vented her frustration saying that “the City is outsourcing too much, we have more than capable workers here to do these jobs but the City insists on using outside people”.
This after a clip was leaked in which mayor Williams allegedly discusses a R26-billion bid to refurbish power stations in Pretoria West and Rooiwal.
“We are here to demand our salary increases and we want answers. Mayor Randall must account for the clip we all saw about the solicit bidding regarding the power stations,” Theledi said.
The regional chairperson of Samwu Nkhetheni Muthavai shared her sentiments saying “currently the municipality is spending a lot of money on outside service providers. The work done by the consultants should and must be done by our workers because we have almost 23 300 workers that are competent enough”.
Further issues the union raised during the march include concern about the six rhinos stolen at Rietvlei Nature Reserve, political interference in administrative matters, selling of leave days, the disregard for collective bargaining and the non-payment of the previously agreed-upon 3.5% salary increase in 2021.
Muthavai called for salary increases for workers stating “they just need to pay the workers, if you look at the material conditions of what’s happening, petrol keeps going up and so does taxi fare, soon our workers won’t afford their transport”.
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