Samwu Workers Storm Tshwane House Over Outstanding Benchmark Payments

LOLO MAPHOPHE

THE SA Municipal Workers Union (samwu) has since given the City of Tshwane administrators an ultimatum to confirm that all collective wage agreements ‘will be respected and implemented’ saying failure to do so would be a declaration of war.

This comes after the Democratic Alliance (DA) Tshwane mayoral candidate Randall Williams criticized SAMWU’s protest, which turned violet at the Tshwane CBD on Tuesday.

Pandemonium ensued on Tuesday after workers affiliated to SAMWU stormed the City of Tshwane municipal offices in protest over outstanding benchmark payments.

According to Williams, the damage was caused to public property by protesters in Tshwane and blames the African National Congress (ANC) led government’s “backtracking” on the salary increases as part of the benchmark agreement signed between the municipality and the city’s major unions.

“The DA believes that the administrators should have found a way to get all parties around a table to ensure