SAMWU Threatens Protest If Municipal Workers Not Provided With PPEs

The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has warned that its members will stay away from work should the municipalities fail to address the glaring failures to provide personal protective equipment to workers.

The protest action planned to coincide with the commencement of level 3 lockdown next week will mean critical services in various municipalities such as water and sanitation, municipal clinics, electricity and refuse collection would ground to a halt.

The union says more than 200 of workers mostly in the frontline service has contracted Corona virus since the commencement of a nationwide lockdown in March. Two of these workers both from the Eastern Cape have sadly lost their lives.

Inside Metro Reporter SANDILE MOTHA asked Samwu general secretary Koena Ramotlou about these developments.

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