'No lunch while guards strike'
2006-06-15 12:10
Johannesburg - Striking security guards will bring business operations in Sandton to a standstill, said the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union on Thursday.
"They cannot be working and enjoying lunch while workers are hungry," said union spokesperson Jackson Simon.
Simon was addressing a group of strikers gathered at Beyers Naude square in the Johannesburg city centre.
He said Metrorail was deliberately delaying trains to sabotage the strike.
"A large number of Satawu members are still stuck in train stations in Pretoria, Germiston, Soweto and other areas."
The guards would wait until all union members had arrived before carrying on with the planned march.
"Even if we have to spend the night in Sandton, we are going there."
The strikers will walk from Rissik Street to Parktown and on Oxford Road through Rosebank to Sandton City.
From there they will walk to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), where, Simon said, the striking guards planned to bring operations to a standstill.
"They cannot be counting shares while the workers are hungry."
- SAPA