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Statement on the upcoming meeting with the Ekurhuleni Mayor

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
30th March 2010

After many attempts to meet with the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni, she has finally agreed to meet with SAMWU on the 01st of April 2010. We hope that this is not an April fool’s joke! Because members will not like to play games, issues that are in the Memorandum delivered to the Mayor on the 23 February 2010 concerns the livelihood of people, the future of the municipality and the community at large.

The meeting comes after the ANC resolved to intervene in the building of healthy relations between SAMWU and the Municipality. The meeting to take place on the 1st of April 2010 will focus on the following concerns;

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
29th March 2010.

A member of SAMWU the largest local government union, who was made to submit affidavits in an investigation that was conducted by the former City Manager of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in connection with the irregularities of the Meyersdale Nature Estate development, has now become a victim of both senior management in the Municipality and some politicians.

The employee over the last two years has been subjected to unlawful instructions in relation to the implementation of his professional functions, on enquiring the moral standing for such instructions he was threatened with dismissals, denied opportunities for a promotion and has even been suspended.

SAMWU exhausts options and submits vital demands to Mpumalanga Municipality

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
26th March 2010.

THE EMPPLOYEES OF STEVE TSHWETE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, having exhausted all other bargaining avenues, hereby submits the following vital demands to the Municipality for immediate action:

1.The municipality must stop the usage of private lawyers in labour disputes;
There are qualified and competent personnel employed by Council who are fit to handle labour disputes. This will also ensure that the relationship between the employer and the employees is not adversarial. Handing labour disputes to private attorneys is tantamount to securing jobs for pals because the process followed is not transparent. Also, duplicating the process is wastage of tax payers’ monies!

rolling mass action in Ekurhuleni

Statement on the rolling mass action in Ekurhuleni

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
26th March 2010.

The sheer arrogance of the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni (Clr. Ntombi Mekgwe) has cost us dearly and caused a council meeting to come to a halt because she did not want to meet with SAMWU on the 25/03/2010. The Executive Mayor has not responded to the SAMWU Memorandum that was delivered on the 23rd February 2010 at Germiston Civic Centre.

SAMWU in Limpopo urges the ANC to immediately intervene!

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
24th March 2010.

SAMWU in Limpopo is strongly urging the ANC to immediately intervene and make sure their deployees in respective Municipalities enter in meaningful engagement with workers, particularly Sekhukhune District, Bela-Bela and Musina Municipalities where deployees are ignoring engagement with workers.

SAMWU has resolved to disrupt the respective Municipalities priorities and management meetings for the sake of the workers and their concerns. The Union will stage a protest action including a march in Sekhukhune and Thabazimbi tomorrow the 25th March 2010.

THE STRUGGLE AT MADIBENG MUNICIPALITY IS FAR FROM OVER

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.
23rd March 2010.

SAMWU members at Madibeng Local Municipality in the North West province went out on strike which started on the 25th February 2010 and ended on the 12th March 2010. The strike was for the immediate dismissal of the Acting Chief Finance Officer, Ms. Nana Masithela who was appointed on a six months contract that started in November and would end on the 30th April 2010.

When appointing this CFO, the Executive Mayor gave a CV to the then Municipal Manager saying that the incumbent was deployed by the Minister for Corporate Governance and Traditional Affairs to recuperate the bad financial situation of the municipality. This statement by the Executive Mayor was a pure lie that misled the Council meeting to resolve on her appointment per resolution A.1077 on a salary scale of R75 412.50 per month.

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