UNION THREAT: Nehawu doubles down during Covid-19: Protect us and pay us or we’ll strike

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Frontline healthcare workers are more important than ever during the Covid-19 crisis, but the public sector’s largest union, Nehawu, is threatening to withdraw its members if the government doesn’t protect workers, and, crucially, pay them what they believe they’re owed.

It’s also demanding that employees who have been exposed to Covid-19 return to work only after they have been in isolation for 10 days and undergone medical screening.

Nehawu also wants the national government to centralise the procurement of personal protective equipment , which is currently handled by each province. The union plans to go on a full-blown strike if its demands are not met within a week of its protests, meaning it could withdraw its labour from health facilities from 10 September as the country continues to battle Covid-19.

“I have sat through with a number of unions together and at this point I have said that if there is any one health worker who is raising a concern of safety, that matter has to be taken seriously,” said Mkhize.

 

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