KZN Sharks Board employees are embarking on a strike action protest in Umhlanga on Thursday. Photograph: Supplied/Lyse Comins
KZN Sharks Board employees go on strike
KZN Sharks Board employees are embarking on a strike in Umhlanga to raise grievances against management on Thursday.
KZN Sharks Board employees are embarking on a strike action protest in Umhlanga on Thursday. Photograph: Supplied/Lyse Comins
A total of around 200 disgruntled KZN Sharks Board employees are expected to embark on strike action that will kick off with a protest march starting at Chris Saunders Park in Umhlanga on Thursday morning.
The Educator’s Union of South Africa informed the MEC of Economic Development Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Ravi Pillay, that staff intended to go on strike, to raise their apparently long held grievances, in a memorandum letter issued earlier this week. The trade union said that it had previously attempted to resolved the workers’ grievances with management but without any success.
“We as KwaZulu Natal Sharks Board employees hereby write this letter to your office as a request to serve you with a memorandum of grievances. Please note that the memorandum will consist of many burning issues that we have raised with management and further with your office too on different occasions,” the union said in the memorandum letter.
KZN Sharks Board staff to highlight grievances
The Union requested Pillay’s presence at the KZN Sharks Board premises in Umhlanga in order to receive the worker’s extensive memorandum of grievances from them at 12 noon.
The union said that about 200 workers, including ten marshals were expected to attend the protest march on Thursday morning.
The workers are expected to gather in Chris Saunders Park at 10am and to depart on the march past Park Lane on Centenary Boulevard and past Aurora Drive towards the Umhlanga Rocks Driver Intersection and off ramp to Herrwood Drive. The workers are expected to arrive at the KZN Sharks Board Main Gate by 11:30am where they will then read out their grievances and hand over a memorandum to Pillay.
The KZN Sharks Board has been embroiled in controversy in recent years, hitting the headlines in September 2020 when one of its former security contractors, Tactical Security Services, won an arbitration award for damages of R725 310 after the organisation was found to be in breach of contract, although it eventually paid the sum.
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