The SA Liberated Public Sector Workers Union has rejected government’s offer of a 3% salary increase for civil servants.
THE SOUTH African Liberated Public Sector Workers Union (Salipswu) has rejected the government’s offer in the Public Service Co-Ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) of a 3% salary increase for civil servants.
The provincial organiser of Salipswu, Thapelo Thole, said they were demanding an 8% increase.
“If the 3% increase and a non-pensionable cash gratuity are implemented, this would mean that public servants would have lost real increases to their wages and pensions for three consecutive years. Our rejection of the government offer is premised primarily on these losses, especially when the cost of living is spiralling.”
Thole stated that community health workers (CHWs) and expanded public works programme (EPWP) workers still needed to be permanently absorbed.
“These are the most exploited workers who rely on a 1% increase every year. They do not enjoy any benefits including pensions and bonuses. The extension of contracts under fake Persal numbers is not bringing justice to the EPWP and CHWs.”
