No end to social development workers’ strike
The Boksburg Social Development offices remain closed as striking workers affiliated to the National Health Education and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) continued their protests for a third week.
Employees of the Boksburg social development office joined the indefinite nationwide strike in the Department of Social Development on Monday, March 13, and have since been picketing outside the department’s offices located on Bank Street, Boksburg CBD.
The strike came after the department failed to meet the demands that the workers have been making since 2015.
Boksburg social development’s Makeke Mampholo, a union shop steward, confirmed that their offices remain closed, as they are still picketing outside the building.
Their demands include the provision of tools of trade, a specific job description for social work, the placement of assistant community development practitioners on the correct salary level, introduction of a danger allowance, the occupational specific dispensation for social service professionals and occupations, absorption of unemployed social workers on a permanent basis and a range of other issues affecting employees.
According to Mampholo, Nehawu representatives are still in negotiations with the department, and were expected to meet with the Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini on Thursday, March 30.-@FanieFLK
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