{"id":165759,"date":"2020-09-14T21:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/we-will-hit-them-where-it-hurts-warns-nehawu-leader\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:03:05","slug":"we-will-hit-them-where-it-hurts-warns-nehawu-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/we-will-hit-them-where-it-hurts-warns-nehawu-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe will hit them where it hurts\u201d warns NEHAWU leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p><a class=\"bigger-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/images\/photographers\/Thamsanqa%20Mbovane\/dsc_0094.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3901560361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/we-will-hit-them-where-it-hurts-warns-nehawu-leader.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">NEHAWU members picket outside Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on Monday ahead of the union\u2019s national strike next month. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NEHAWU members picketed outside Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on Monday.<\/li>\n<li>They are threatening a national strike next month unless their 7% salary increase demand is met.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>About 100 National Education, Health and Allied Workers\u2019 Union (NEHAWU) members picketed outside Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The group says the picket is in preparation for the national strike next month where thousands of members across various sectors have threatened to down tools to demand a 7% salary increase from government.<\/p>\n<p>The union says government officials failed to adequately respond to their demands handed over to the premiers of the eight provinces and the office of the President following their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/unions-threaten-total-shutdown-five-days-time\/\">national day of action<\/a> on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, nurses, cleaning staff, porters and admin clerks joined the picket.<\/p>\n<p>NEHAWU\u2019s Busiswa Stokwe said: \u201cWe are happy that the government will announce moving to level one lockdown soon because most of our workers working home will be back to work. The salary issue is not affecting the health sector alone but also other public institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stokwe said other state run entities such as SASSA, SARS and some tertiary institutions where NEHAWU has membership would also be impacted by their strike in early October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take our mandate from workers because salary issues affect all who are employed by the government. There will be a total shutdown. We don\u2019t want a strike that would drag unnecessarily \u2026 We want all government employees to be part of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will hit them where it hurts. When people go to SASSA or SARS next month there won\u2019t be anyone to help them behind the counter. The government is our biggest enemy and they can\u2019t tell us about Covid-19 because we know it first hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, NEHAWU said it again wrote to the Office of the President on 11 September \u201cto remind him about the ultimatum\u201d to strike. \u201cDisappointingly, the President has only acknowledged the receipt of our letter and nothing about responding to our demands. We will continue with lunch hour demonstrations in all workplaces across provinces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions sent to the President\u2019s office had not been answered by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2020 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/we-will-hit-them-where-it-hurts-warns-nehawu-leader.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/\">Source: GroundUp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEHAWU members picket outside Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on Monday ahead of the union\u2019s national strike next month. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane NEHAWU members picketed outside Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth on Monday. They are threatening a national strike next month unless their 7% salary increase demand is met. 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