Workers from Nelson Mandela Bay Public Health and Waste Management are demanding to meet with management regarding outstanding back pay.
Employees parked municipal refuse trucks outside Lillian Diedricks Building, formerly Brister House, and blocked off a section of the road in Govan Mbeki Avenue on Tuesday morning.
Workers Committee Chairperson, Eric Mtati says they are not on strike and want to return to work as soon as the matter is resolved with management.
Mtati says back pay money has been outstanding for several years and management continues to postpone meetings..
"We started negotiations with them in 2012. This money was supposed to be implemented from July 2005 but because we managed to talk and compromised-then the back pay was supposed to start 2011-2013. They say they do not have money, but now we agreed that they do have money to pay their workers"
He says another problem within the directorate is that there is no permanent director.
"We don't have a director. There is nobody permanent in that chair. That is the problem-people act as temporary directors, then they leave after 3 months" he added
