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JOHANNESBURG – The National Union of Education, Health and Allied Workers (Nehawu) threatens to withdraw its support for the ANC in the municipal elections next year if it does not heed their demands.
The union will meet with ministers Tuesday night to discuss the demands handed over to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Nehawu has not announced a date for his threat of a national strike, saying he is allowing more time for his leaders to meet and negotiate with the government.
The union has complained about the lack of adequate protective equipment for its members during the COVID-19 pandemic and is also demanding that the government fulfill its commitment to increase the wages of public service workers.
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Nehawu said they will continue picketing at lunchtime for now to protest current conditions, as well as some more political measures.
Nehawu Secretary General Zola Saphetha said that one of the ANC’s failures is to ignore and despise the workers of this country.
“Like this union, it will not be easy, to convince our members again, to support. As we know, 2021 is a year of local government [elections].
“We are not going to go to bleeding people, people who are starving, because they don’t give them their money, and tell them ‘vote for the people who are always oppressing you.
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“People who are relegating what we have agreed to. People who have refused to give what is owed to them,” Saphetha said.
“We are going formally to them, to the ANC, just to raise that because it is the ANC that is deployed in this government,” Saphetha said.
