Police union to go on strike
August 26 2013 at 08:49pm
By SAPA
By SAPA
Nardus Engelbrecht/SAPA
Police administrative
staff affiliated to Popcru (Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union) march in
Cape Town over police salary grades. File picture: Nardus Engelbrecht/SAPA
Administration staff affiliated to the
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) will go on strike on Thursday,
the union said.
The police had failed to meet the
demands they made during a series of marches in May and June, Popcru spokesman
Theto Mahlakoana said in a statement on Monday.
“The police management
has shown absolute disregard for the needs of the administrators and other
workers employed under the (Public Service Act), despite existing legal
documents forcing the employer to improve their conditions,” Mahlakoana said.
“Popcru is demanding, on behalf of
these workers, that (SA Police Service) management should implement a
department of public service and administration directive which would upgrade
the levels of all admin staff in line with other public service departments.”
Mahlakoana said the police had
consistently failed to implement a 2011 agreement to employ workers who fell
under the Public Service Act under the SAPS Act instead.
Sapa
