{"id":6671,"date":"2021-03-18T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:10:55","slug":"municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase","title":{"rendered":"Municipal workers to demand R4\u00a0000 salary increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>COSATU affiliate, the SA Municipal Workers\u2019 Union (Samwu), will demand a R4 000 salary increase for its members in the country\u2019s 257 municipalities and their entities when wage negotiations start later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The union, which has over 160 000 members, announced the move at the end of its four-day national collective bargaining conference in Johannesburg on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Samwu, the conference has resolved that the union should negotiate a R4 000 across the board salary increase. It said that it was taking into account the local government sector\u2019s huge salary gap that needs to be narrowed to improve workers\u2019 standards of living.<\/p>\n<p>Samwu also said the food basket and public transport keep increasing.<\/p>\n<p>The union will also negotiate a single year agreement in order to be constantly in touch with workers and ensure that the principle of worker control is entrenched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dA single year agreement will also ensure that workers do not lose out on their real salary increase as a result of inflation,\u201d Samwu said.<\/p>\n<p>It believes that single-year agreements will be in the interest of labour stability in the sector as the future appears uncertain. Samwu said its members can no longer be tied to multi-year agreements not in their interest, that do not fundamentally change their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The union, which also represents workers in the country\u2019s 12 water boards, will table similar demands in the Amanzi Bargaining Council (ABC). Salary agreements signed at the ABC and the Local Government Bargaining Council will lapse at the end of June paving the wave for a fresh round of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, municipal workers received 6.25% salary increases.<\/p>\n<p><b>POLITICAL BUREAU<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. COSATU affiliate, the SA Municipal Workers\u2019 Union (Samwu), will demand a R4 000 salary increase for its members in the country\u2019s 257 municipalities and their entities when wage negotiations start later this year. The union, which has over 160 000 members, announced the move at the end of its four-day national collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Municipal workers to demand R4\u00a0000 salary increase - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"COSATU affiliate, the SA Municipal Workers\u2019 Union (Samwu), will demand a R4 000 salary increase for its members in the c ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Municipal workers to demand R4\u00a0000 salary increase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"COSATU affiliate, the SA Municipal Workers\u2019 Union (Samwu), will demand a R4 000 salary increase for its members in the c ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-18T20:53:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/03\/img-60539794001e1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"404\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Municipal workers to demand R4\u00a0000 salary increase\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-18T20:53:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\"},\"wordCount\":278,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/03\/img-60539794001e1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipal-workers-to-demand-r4-000-salary-increase\",\"name\":\"Municipal workers to demand R4\u00a0000 salary increase - 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