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More than 100 workers affiliated with the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) lost their jobs for protesting over the city’s refusal to implement a 5.4% salary increase.
Cope is calling on the Human Rights Commission and Public Protector to intervene in the City of Tshwane municipal workers' strike, before the situations risks becoming worse.
Public servants affiliated with the union staged a protest in Pretoria on Friday calling for a 5.4-percent salary increase, despite the municipality obtaining a court interdict against striking workers over three weeks ago.
Amid a wage dispute, the DA is accusing the union of conspiring to commit sabotage and kidnapping.
Despite the City of Tshwane maintaining that it cannot afford to pay salary increases, Sawmu workers said they are not willing to negotiate, adding that the city should abide by the decision made by the bargaining council.