THE Public Servants Association (PSA) has lambasted the Minister of Public Service and Administration Senzo Mchunu for saying the public sector union walked out of the wage negotiations.
This comes after Mchunu said on Monday that the PSA, which represented over 200,000 workers in the public service, had been undermining the collective bargaining process under way by making allegations that it was excluded from the facilitation process.
The PSA’s spokesperson Reuben Maleka said the fact of the matter is that the PSA was excluded from the facilitation process after the union declared a dispute.
“The Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council thus excluded the PSA from all processes relating to the current Public Service wage negotiations,” said Maleka.
“The PSA, which represents more than 235 000 public-sector employees, initially participated in the facilitation process with the rest of labour, but later discovered that Government as employer was merely delaying the entire
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