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Netwerk24 reports that Olly Mlamleli, executive mayor of the Mangaung metro, said on Wednesday morning at a news conference that the strike by members of the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) was over and that employees were returning to their workplaces.
Nonetheless, workers were still sitting around waiting to hear if hear if their demands were going to receive attention. Mlamleli also advised that Samwu members had caused damage of hundreds of thousands of rands to 64 buses of Interstate Bus Lines. She indicated that any damages’ claim must be made against the union and not the metro. Mlamleli said that the strike was a thing of the past as the Labour Court in Johannesburg had already last week declared it unlawful and unprotected. It was her view that the workers would return to work because Pule Molalenyane, national president of Samwu, said on the radio on Tuesday that they “would not go against the law.” But DA councillor Rossouw Botes said that, while the metro’s management was giving the impression that the strike was over, the union had indicated that its members were still on strike. (Loosely translated from Afrikaans)
- Read this report by Marietjie Gericke in full in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (limit on access)
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