ICASA
Hundreds of employees at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa have downed tools in a country-wide wage strike.
Members of the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHWAU) are standing firm on their demand for an 8% wage increase where as the communications regulator is reportedly offering 4.4%.
Nehawu branch secretary, Kabelo Thelele, said the union “claims” membership of 200 of the 300 employees at ICASA, saying the industrial action will see “the offices of the authority across the Republic shutdown until further notice”.
He said the union gave ICASA a seven-day strike notice last week after wage negotiations broke down.
Nehawu said its members were subjected to “below inflation” increases for the past three years.
The union also accused ICASA management of “unilaterally suspending the work from home policy” thus forcing workers to return to office with immediate effect.
“This we understand to be for the purpose of monitoring and victimising workers by enforcing the ‘No work, No pay’ principle,” Thelele said.
