CIVIL SERVANTS TO MARCH OVER STALLED TALKS TOMORROW

MANZINI – Government operations could be brought to a standstill tomorrow as civil servants have vowed to join teachers in their march to demand the resumption of pending salary review talks.

The stance by the civil servants came after teachers, through their association, the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), held an extra-ordinary meeting about a fortnight ago where they resolved to down tools and march to demand that government convenes the round table tomorrow.

During the meeting, the teachers agreed that last Wednesday, their National Executive Council (NEC) should ask the other Public Sector Associations (PSAs) to go and demand that the negotiations should resume, failing which they would march tomorrow to demand same.
Also last week, government sent a wrong communiqué to PSAs, which invited them to the round table only to apologise later and claim to have been directing the message to the National Public Service and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU) because it (government) wanted to continue with their bilateral meeting over a recognition agreement.

Following this, the teachers’ union leaders said they would not stand in the way of their members when they were fighting injustice, but instead they would lead them to demand the resumption of the round table tomorrow. As events unfolded, the teachers’ association leaders formally notified the other public sector associations about their decision to march to the Ministry of Public Service and further welcomed their participation in tomorrow’s activity as the negotiation table affects all of them.

Post your comment

Your name:

Your e-mail address:

Add your comments:

Please enter the code you see in the image:

Image:

Code: