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NUPSAW plans on disrupting all Budget Speeches. Photo: NUPSAW/ Facebook.

NUPSAW threatens to picket on day of Budget Speech

NUPSAW along with other public services unions plan to serve government with a full-blown strike on the day of the Budget Speech.

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NUPSAW plans on disrupting all Budget Speeches. Photo: NUPSAW/ Facebook.

The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) along with other public services unions plan to serve government with a full-blown strike on the day of the Budget Speech.

NUPSAW REJECTS WAGE OFFER BY EMPLOYER

This after the Union and its allied partners briefed its members about the rejected wage offer by government.

General Secretary Solly Malema said Organised labour has taken a decision to hold a joint briefing to intensify the fight-back campaign against the unscrupulous employer who tried to shove a 3% wage offer down the workers’ throat.

“It’s important to note the context of our rejection of the insulting 3% public wage increase for the 2022/ 2023 financial year.”

Malema

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WHY WAGE OFFER WAS REJECTED BY THE UNION

He went on to say that firstly government has shown workers the middle finger when it refused to implement the last leg of the 2018 wage agreement. “To add salt to injury, the same employer has now violated the spirit and the letter of Collective Bargaining by unilaterally implementing a 3% wage increase.”

He says this is despite the majority of workers in the public sector declining the offer. In addition to that, the cost of living has skyrocketed as the inflation hover around 7%. Not to mention the increasing price of fuel, 18.65% increase in electricity tariffs and the ever-present power outages.

“It is on the background of the context above that as NUPSAW we cannot accept anything below a 10% wage increase.”

Malema

BUDGET SPEECH TO BE DISRUPTED AS PLAN TO INTENSIFY PRESSURE

Here are the following resolutions taken by the Union to put more pressure on the employer:

  • We will on days when the Minister of Finance and MECs of Finance are presenting their budget speeches picket outside the venues as part of our rejection of austerity measures and the implementation of neo-liberal policies.
  • On the day of the Budget Speech, 22 February 2023, we are going to serve the employer with the notice for strike action.
  • We have resolved to rally our collective might to push the employer to improve the rejected offer and will use everything in our power to register our disdain for the government’s attitude.

“NUPSAW has urged its members in the public sector to take part in mobilization activities that will be arranged in different institutions,” he concluded.