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[File Image]: Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) hold placards.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has strongly condemned the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Dr Nasiphi Moya’s failure to receive a memorandum of demands from workers.
NUMSA members marched on the City of Tshwane on Friday due to the city’s failure to pay retrenchment packages to workers employed by Tshwane Affected Operations Investments (TAOI).
The union says the City had contracted TAOI to supply security staff and cleaners for the Tshwane Rapid Transport Areyeng bus service but terminated the contract in December 2024, following a section 189 process facilitated by the CCMA.
NUMSA members at TAOI will not back down until all demands are met! Workers demand their retrenchment packages and to be insourced directly by the @CityTshwane as promised!@PresidencyZA@CyrilRamaphosa#ForTheLoveofTheWorkingClass #InsimbiAyigobi
❤️🖤💛 pic.twitter.com/T9Yrf0AL6A— NUMSA (@Numsa_Media) March 6, 2025
NUMSA spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi says they are demanding that the City take responsibility for paying the retrenchment packages and ensure that workers receive the compensation they are owed.
“Our demands were saying that the City of Tshwane must pay the money it owes to TAIO so that retrenchment packages can be paid to employees. We are also saying that they must live up to the promise of absorbing all employees either as station marshals or as security guards which is what they had said they will do. Our memorandum was received by the general manager of roads and transport for the city and we have given the city five working days to respond in writing to our demands.”
