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Last Update -Thursday 23 May 2013, 12:27

Samwu and IMATU between a rock and a hard place

Negotiations this week over the ongoing municipal workers strike saw the employers, the SA Local Government Association (Salga), increasing their wage increase offer marginally from 6.08% to 6.3%. The unions must now decide whether to back down from their 10% demand, and massively lose face, or prolong the strike in the face of lukewarm and dwindling support in their most important region of Gauteng.