Looking, at the news this morning the headline reads : municipal strike continues as talks falter, following on from if they don't pay us we will keep striking and swamu condemns strike violence.
So a i did a quick search through the M and G article file, it turns out their last strike for 15% increase was in july of 2009 they got 11% , now i have not had one cent pay increase in 3 years, dispirit having changed jobs and doing significanty more work with more responsibility. Clearly the economy is in the dwange as my dad would say.
so here is my list,
municipal workers marched or striked in
April 2010
July 2009
10 Oct 2008
19 September 2007
July 2006
and 12 July 2005......
you get the picture. what im thinking is do we need them? these guys make it an annual ritual of striking before negociating with anyone. they are not exacly hugly skilled labourers. and there is still a 30% + unemployment rate in this country. give the jobs to those who want them. this lot clearly doesn't want to work. thats almost 6 months of not working in 5 years, the last municipal strike cost us 15 000 000 a day and they striked for over a 2 weeks what that 2.1 billion rand!
enough already! pick up the trash.
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