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Johannesburg - The SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) on Friday threatened to
strike in solidarity with public servants.
"The largest local government union, Samwu, would like to send its unconditional solidarity and support to the ongoing strike by comrades of the public sector unions," said Samwu spokesperson Tahir Sema in a statement.
He urged the government to call an urgent meeting with unions and grant them their "reasonable and legitimate demands".
"In the absence of any meaningful resolution to the strike, we as Samwu will have no other option but to extend our solidarity, in the form of joining the protest actions, the same way we did in 2007.
"If government does not concede to the workers' demands in the public sector then we will raise the possibility of solidarity marches, at the Cosatu (Congress of SA Trade Unions) central executive committee meeting scheduled for next week," said Sema.
"The largest local government union, Samwu, would like to send its unconditional solidarity and support to the ongoing strike by comrades of the public sector unions," said Samwu spokesperson Tahir Sema in a statement.
He urged the government to call an urgent meeting with unions and grant them their "reasonable and legitimate demands".
"In the absence of any meaningful resolution to the strike, we as Samwu will have no other option but to extend our solidarity, in the form of joining the protest actions, the same way we did in 2007.
"If government does not concede to the workers' demands in the public sector then we will raise the possibility of solidarity marches, at the Cosatu (Congress of SA Trade Unions) central executive committee meeting scheduled for next week," said Sema.
