Public sector workers begin countrywide pickets amid wage negotiation deadlock
Drama/Umdlalo womoya · UKHOZI FM
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Tensions between Public Service Unions and government continue to rise as unions embark on countrywide mass pickets. The unions are demonstrating their frustration at government's unilateral decision to offer workers a 3 percent salary increase. This follows the collapse of wage negotiations last week as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana stuck to his guns in his Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement stating that government's current offer is in the best interest of both the fiscus and workers. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter Phumzile Mlangeni and began by asking if the workers came out in their numbers to picket