Security officers marching at Tshwane House
Embattled City of Tshwane security personnel are for the umpteenth time now demanding to be insourced into the Municipality’s workforce and be granted all the attendant benefits pertaining to the Municipality’s fulltime workers.
Now to drive home their demand for insourcing, hundreds of them marched to the Municipality’s headquarters Tshwane House, to hand in a memorandum of demands to MMC for Community Safety Hannes Coetzee on Tuesday.
The march started at Schubart Park with spirited singing and dancing before proceeding to Tshwane House.
According to the memorandum, the security personnel’s battle started around 2021 and they are of the opinion that the matter demands immediate attention and resolution.
“Regrettably, there has been minimal progress or communication regarding this crucial matter,” reads the memorandum.
“We as workers do not need a service provider (labour brokers) until the issue of insourcing is fully resolved,” said one of the leaders of the march Chris Ramakoe.
“We do not need any more private companies to be brought in, we want the City to employ us permanently under its own structures and if the City fails to provide us with a positive response, then we will withdraw our protection of City property and a complete shut down will follow,” he said.
However, he expressed hope that the political leadership will intervene in the matter and find a fair solution to the unjust decisions made against them by the City of Tshwane Municipality.
One of the leaders of the march Christopher Ramakoe told Tshwane Talks that in 2019 a Council resolution was adopted whereby it was promised that 4000 security personnel would be absorbed into the permanent workforce of the City of Tshwane but what has happened is that only 1 312 officers have been absorbed.
“We are sick and tired about the treatment that we get from the City of Tshwane Municipality and I must emphasise that the Municipality is failing us and dies not consider the fact that we are breadwinners and parents with many responsibilities,” said Ramakoe.
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