THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) says it will mobilise its workers to shut down the South African Revenue Services (SARS) after wage negotiations hit an impasse.
In messages circulated on social media, Nehawu said the shutdown will commence on Tuesday (12 July) after rejecting a proposed wage increase of 1.39%.
“On 3 June 2022, a meeting was convened with SARS to push the employer on improving its offer, however that meeting did not yield any positive results. Instead, SARS made it categorically clear that the position tabled to Nehawu on 29 May 2022, has not changed and remains final.
“The national union has since then been consulting its members through convening membership meetings, shop steward councils in all workplaces of SARS which culminated to the national meeting held on Friday 08th July 2022 for a mandate on the way forward.”
Following its meeting, Nehawu said it
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