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Members of opposition parties in Bloemfontein took part in various #Noconfidence marches against President Zuma held across the nation on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance #Noconfidence (DA) held a public viewing of the Cape Town March in the Bloemfontein CBD. The Economic Freedom Front (EFF) marched from the Ramkraal Prison to the provincial office, stating that they are there to tell the premier, Ace Magashule, that he is next. They then marched to Hoffman Square. Members of the Congress of the People (COPE) stood along President Brand Street with their placards, chanting as drivers were hooting when passing them. PHOTOS: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN Samwu slams MMM over vacancies PULANE CHOANE those who are interested to continue to metro has only addressed one of the issues during one of our LLF meetings but they [email protected] apply. that led to a strike that lasted almost a simply refused to address the issue, stating Secretary of the union, Thabang Tseoua, month earlier on this year. that the LLF was not the platform to said “Samwu is of the view that the “The metro has only given us the R2 500 discuss salary increments, however, we While hundreds of hopefuls in the process followed was not in accordance salary increments and even this is a partial want to hold them to account because Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality were with municipal policies and is therefore adjustment, as not all the workers have they have performed on salary increments happy with the advertisement of vacancies unprocedural. Part of the policy requires received these increments,” Tseoua said. in the past, such as when senior employees at the metro that have been made available, the metro to consult with the Local He said the metro is yet to reimburse in the metro received their metro salary the South African Municipal Workers’ Labour Forum (LLF) before placing ads and the workers’ retrospective payments adjustments, as well as more recently with Union (Samwu) says the metro did not this has not been done.” amounting to R40 000, which are metro the R2 500 increments that were given to follow the correct procedures when it Tseoua also said that some of the positions salary adjustments. our workers,” he said. advertised these vacancies. advertised are not part of the metro’s According to him one of the union’s Tseoua said the union will continue to Rumours have been doing the rounds that organisational structure and that he demands was that long-standing workers engage with the metro, but is considering these vacancies have been frozen, however, intends to challenge the metro through who have gone on retirement as at 31 May taking aggressive steps against it as per municipal spokesperson, Qondile Khedama, various channels as “the metro cannot just 2017 also ought to receive a once-off the Labour Act should it continue to avoid confirmed in a statement he released on change the organisational structure.” R50 000 gratuity payment for service negotiations. He also said the union has Monday that this is not true and that the He added that tension between the union rendered to the metro. “We tried to not yet decided whether or not to pursue vacancies remain open. He encouraged all and the metro continues to mount as the engage with the metro last week Friday strike action within this regard.

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