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The largest public sector union has warned that it will be difficult to convince its members to continue voting for the ANC.
Some 60 members of the National Union of Education, Health and Allied Workers (Nehawu) demonstrated outside union buildings in Pretoria on Monday demanding responses to their national strike last month.
The union protested against the non-payment of public sector salary increases in 2020, the shortage of personal protective equipment against coronavirus for frontline workers, the lack of coverage of vacant positions that lead to staff shortages and covid corruption. -19.
Union spokesman Khaya Xaba said they expected President Cyril Ramaphosa to respond to their demands before September 10.
“This protest is a continuation, as we are still [awaiting] a response from the government regarding the issues we have raised; we are waiting for someone from the government to speak to us, ”Xaba said.
The picket comes as the leaders of the union’s national office meet with the ANC Top 6 on the same issues on Monday.
“Officials in our national office are raising the same issues with the ANC explaining that it will be difficult for Nehawu to campaign for the ANC in the next election because of how ANC employees in government treat us,” Xaba said.
He said it would be difficult for Nehawu to convince its members who are going through difficult times caused by decisions made by ANC government deployments to vote for the same party in the upcoming local government elections next year.
Xaba said the issue of wage increases was more important as front-line workers are now subject to poverty.
