COSATU to march for better wages SNN, The New Age, Johannesburg, 22 April 2015 The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliated trade unions in the public service will march to the national Treasury and the Department of Public Service in support of demands for better wages tomorrow. The march takes place after Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene moaned in Parliament recently. Unions in the public sector and the government have been in negotiations for the past few months with the public service proposing 4.8% countered by the union's demand of 10%. COSATU provincial secretary for COSATU Dumisani Dakile told SNN: "We were informed by our negotiating team that the employer (public service) does not want to even consider some of these demands and the explanation was the Treasury does not want to provide resources for the state to be able to move and meet our demands." "We have files a notice with the Tshwane municipality of our intention to march to the office of the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) as the employer and also to the Department of Finance." The workers are demanding among others, the following: . R1500 housing subsidy . Six months maternity leave . 10 days for paternity leave . 10 days for family responsibility leave for parents with children with special needs Transcribed -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
