NEHAWU plans five marches on budget day to highlight issues such as outsourcing

National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) delivered a memorandum to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan before he delivered the 2017 budget speech. “According to NEHAWU General Secretary Bereng Soke‚ the issues to be raised during the day of national action [included], but [were] not be limited to, retrenchments and outsourcing‚ a demand for a higher minimum wage‚ the total scrapping of e-tolls and the full implementation of national health insurance. ‘The aim of this national day of action is to show the Treasury and government as a whole that we are not prepared to accept starvation wages‚ outsourcing‚ labour broking and private public partnership‚ he said.”