[South Africa] Nehawu to support jobs and poverty campaign

from The Independent On Line

The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) called on its members around the country to support Thursday's strike to protest against mass poverty and loss of jobs.

The strike is part of a campaign by the Congress of SA Trade Unions.

Spokesperson Tebello Mokoena said on Wednesday that Nehawu was satisfied there would be a good turnout of its members in all provinces.

"Members who are in essential services and cannot join the strike actions will wear stickers to show their support for the campaign," said Mokoena.

The strike would also be the first phase of Nehawu's service delivery campaign.

"The strike will also highlight those issues that our public service delivery summit held last month identified as impediments to service delivery," he said.

These included under-funding and staff shortages in the public service, poor conditions of service for public servants, and corruption.

"Our members join the marches tomorrow (Thursday) to demand... that funding should be increased in the public service, and that certain management functions be decentralised for greater efficiency in the public service".

The union also demands that there should be more investment in improving the skills of public servants to improve service delivery.