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SAPU TAKING DPSA TO COURT OVER PSCBC AGREEMENT MOVE
Drickus Maartens • Jul 01, 2021
SAPU TAKING DPSA TO COURT OVER PSCBC AGREEMENT MOVE
The South African Policing Union is seriously considering a court interdict to compel the Department of Public Service and Administration to implement the final leg of the agreement the Government signed with public sector unions in the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) in 2018. We find it totally unacceptable, reckless and opportunistic for Minister Senzo Mchunu to use the Covid-19 crisis and the country's recent downgrade to junk status as convenient excuses to justify why the Government want to renege on the agreement.
It is clear the Government has not been willing to fulfil its side of the bargain because as early as just a day prior to the Budget Speech of the Finance Minister, the Government indicated its willingness not to honour the agreement. That was a long time before the Covid-19 reached the crisis stage it has reached and a long time before the country's economic status was downgraded. SAPU would like to place it on record that our legal team is busy preparing documents to challenge Government on its intended move.
As much as we are classified as an essential service, we want to take this route to protect and defend what we believe is the fundamental rights of our members. We cannot allow this Government to undermine collective bargaining like this. If a party to council is allowed to undermine collective bargaining, that would be the reversal of one of the major victories that public servants as part of the working class have secured in the democratic dispensation. This would be the end of the PSCBC itself. SAPU is calling upon other unions to take this fight to the Government.
The attitude of Government is completely uncalled for. The DPSA is provoking our members. It is more painful for police officers who are amongst the lowest paid employees in the entire civil service. Police officers are already denied another fundamental labour right as they are not promoted. Hundreds of police officers are long overdue for promotions. Their only hope of some compensation has always been the annual public service salary increment and now with this latest development it is clear that there is nothing to console them. This will also have a negative impact on service delivery as it is a demoralising fact in the low morale police service. We are calling on the Government to lead with example and act with honesty as well. Pay civil servants what is due to them.
SAPU calls upon Minister Mchunu, a former union leader himself to assist the constituency that he is coming from. This act of extreme provocation will not be tolerated. There is no way that when the state is facing some challenges, our members will be used as soft targets. The Government can sacrifice other commitments not our members' long overdue salary increments. All public servants are looking forward to the payday in April 2020 and now is the time.
Issued by: Tumelo Mogodiseng
General Secretary
2023
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South African Policing Union (SAPU) in the Eastern Cape has noted with grave concern the increase in mass murders taking place in our province. This weekend several people were killed at a private birthday party in Nomjila Street, Kwazakhele. This is the third incident of mass killings in the last two weeks. SAPU calls for the establishment of specialised units, specifically Murder and Robbery units which must focus on the mass killings which leave many families stricken with grief. These families have a right to have these killings speedily investigated and that the perpetrators are arrested and charged. Since 2020 South African Policing Union (SAPU) has called on the SAPS management to re-establish all specialized units which were closed in 2008. The closure of these units has hindered investigations and has demoralized dedicated and committed police officers. Murder and robbery as well as serious and violent crime units were among those units closed, thus the rise in those crimes. The recent establishment of police teams to deal with specific types of crimes has vindicated SAPU’s call for specialized units to be brought back. The implications of these high crime levels and the increases are enormous, and they need to be addressed, we can’t wait we need to do this now. Issued by: SAPU Eastern Cape Contact: Leon Naude Provincial Secretary
South African Policing Union (SAPU) in the Eastern Cape has noted with grave concern the increase in mass murders taking place in our province. This weekend several people were killed at a private birthday party in Nomjila Street, Kwazakhele. This is the third incident of mass killings in the last two weeks. SAPU calls for the establishment of specialised units, specifically Murder and Robbery units which must focus on the mass killings which leave many families stricken with grief. These families have a right to have these killings speedily investigated and that the perpetrators are arrested and charged. Since 2020 South African Policing Union (SAPU) has called on the SAPS management to re-establish all specialized units which were closed in 2008. The closure of these units has hindered investigations and has demoralized dedicated and committed police officers. Murder and robbery as well as serious and violent crime units were among those units closed, thus the rise in those crimes. The recent establishment of police teams to deal with specific types of crimes has vindicated SAPU’s call for specialized units to be brought back. The implications of these high crime levels and the increases are enormous, and they need to be addressed, we can’t wait we need to do this now. Issued by: SAPU Eastern Cape Contact: Leon Naude Provincial Secretary
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