Close to one million public sector workers to strike in South Africa
AFP, September, 2004
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — Close to one million public sector employees will hold a strike protest next week in South Africa after unions rejected the government's six-percent offer for a pay increase, a union spokesman said.
Teachers, medical workers, prison guards, police and government employees will stage a mass march on Thursday and are planning several other day-long work stoppages as part of the staggered strike action.
"There was a unanimous rejection of the offer by government by all the unions. They were unanimous for a day of strike action to begin on September 16," said Thulas Nxesi, the general secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU).
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Nxesi said the decision to launch a strike was taken after negotiations failed to yield results on the union's demands for a seven-percent wage increase.
"That means that on September 16, there will be close to a million ...
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