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Johannesburg - Municipal workers will bring the Johannesburg
CBD to a standstill this week, the SA Municipal Workers' Union said on
Wednesday.
"We expect the town to be standing still; we will fill
Simmonds from the top," Gauteng provincial secretary Ntsikelelo Klaas told
journalists in Johannesburg.
Municipal workers downed tools on Monday demanding an 18%
pay rise, with employers, the SA Local Government Association, offering 6.08%.
Klaas disputed reports that workers in the province had
boycotted the strike over allegations of corruption and were at work across the
province.
"Members may be at work but they are not working,"
he said.
However, the City of Johannesburg reported that 90% of its
employees were working, with a similar situation in Tshwane.
"In Tshwane members are out, in Ekurhuleni members are
out, in Vaal members are out," Klaas said.
He said it was only in Johannesburg where the strike was
slow to gain momentum.
"In might be slow in Johannesburg but in Gauteng as a
whole, our members are out on strike."
He urged members not to be diverted and said the issues of
corruption had to be dealt with separately.
Workers would march for their wage demands and also in protest against the Municipal Amendment Bill, dubbed the Cadres Bill.
