NEHAWU PREPARING FOR A STRIKE AT SASSA
Friday September 14, 2018
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] is currently preparing for a strike at the South African Social Security Agency [SASSA]. The strike comes as a result of the continued disregard to processes which seek to undermine the Labour Relations Act, as amended.
The national union met with the SASSA management on the 16th August to resolve issues as part of averting the strike but the management has elected to remain intransigent. Though the national union has been very patient in giving the management an opportunity to concede to our demands, however, our patience has ran out after we came to the realisation that SASSA has no intention of conceding to our demands hence we took the decision to go on strike.
Having served the notice to strike on the 16th August 2018 SASSA instead chose to file an application for a Variation of the 2016 Essential Services Committee designation that Grant Administration and Senior Grant Administration should form part of Essential Services designation, as an attempt to avert our strike. In this regard, we want to inform the public in particular the grant beneficiaries that our demands still remains as: