Popcru Rejects Public Sector Wage Deal

THE Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) have rejected the implementation of a new public sector wage deal.

The police said the public sector wage increase of 1.5 percent was an insult to the union’s members, who are frontline workers. 

The union further demands that employer must consider incorporating non-pensionable gratuity into the baseline to effect real increase into public servants salaries.

Several unions have accepted the government’s wage offer, including the South African Democratic Teachers Union, the Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union, Denosa, Naptosa, and the PSA, who represent more than 60-percent of the public sector workforce.

The PSA, which represents 230,000 public servants, said it regarded government’s interim wage offer as a temporary measure in the absence of no agreement being reached on their other salary demands related to a housing allowance and medical aid.

“The PSA was set to serve the employer with a