SAMWU disgusted at Municipal Managers’ Salary Increases
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) is disgusted at reports that municipal managers and directors will be receiving highly inflated salary increases, with some receiving over 40% salary increase.
We believe that the Department of Traditional Affairs and Cooperative Governance (COGTA) deliberately waited for us to conclude our salary and wage negotiations with SALGA before they could announce the exponential and unjustifiable salary increases that municipal managers and senior managers stand to receive.
When municipal workers demand living and decent wages, we are conveniently told that municipalities do not have money for such increases, yet when municipal managers get exponential increases, that argument does not work. Municipal workers demand to be treated fairly after all they are the people who are responsible for the delivery of services.
SAMWU believes that the huge wage bill that the National Treasury Minister recently complained about is as a result of these salaries given to senior management in municipalities, people who are clueless about service delivery.