Nehawu takes strike to Sandton

2010-09-03 14:39

Johannesburg - About 100 members of the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu), drove to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the offices of Business Unity SA (Busa) in Sandton on Friday, in a bid to push the government to meet their salary demands.

Union members gathered at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown before heading to Sandton in a convoy of cars.

The cars were decorated with placards reading: "Down with poverty wage".

Another read: "We demand equal medical subsidy for all government employees." "We are going to shut all entities that have the power to decide. We are going to JSE and Busa where our money is handled," said one union official before getting inside a car heading to Sandton.

Jake Lekomme, a union member said the protest at the JSE and Busa was part of their strategy to influence government to give them an 8.6% pay hike and R1 000 housing allowance.

The government has tabled a revised offer of a 7.5% pay hike and an R800 housing allowance.

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