The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) is planning to go to the Constitutional Court to challenge a recent Labour Appeal Court ruling over salary hikes.
The Labour Appeal Court dismissed an application by public service unions to compel the state to implement the third year of increases.
The reduction of the public service wage bill is the central pillar of the government’s economic turnaround plan but unions are pushing back hard.
Sadtu’s Nkosana Dolopi said the promised increase must be implemented.
“The national executive committee then resolved to work with other public-sector unions to make sure that they take this matter further than the Labour Appeal Court. Because when you protect freedom of association, you also protect collective bargaining.”
The meeting took place in a week when the Labour Appeal Court dismissed the application by public service unions to compel government to implement Clause 3.3 of Resolution 1 of 2018 that would have given public servants salary increases for 2020.
— SADTU National. (@SadtuNational) December 19, 2020
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) held its last ordinary meeting for 2020 virtually from 17 to 19 December.
Being the last meeting in 2020, the NEC adopted the Union’s budgets and programmes for 2021.— SADTU National. (@SadtuNational) December 19, 2020
-EWN
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