The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) is appalled by a poorly applied Stalingrad’s tactic used by government in a bid to avoid implementing the last leg of the public sector wage agreement
In July, the employer and some unions signed an insulting deal at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council.
That deal, under resolution 1 of 2021 of the PSCBC meant that public servants would receive a measly 1.5% wage increase for workers who did not qualify for a pensionable increase.
We objected to signing that sellout agreement, because we realised that it would it no way improve the living conditions of the already overburdened workers.
What is worse, however, is government’s relentless endeavor to shift the goal posts, with the hope that the agreement will somehow vanish into nothingness.
Initially, the 1.5 percent wage increase was supposed to be implemented on or before the end of September 2021, and now the department of public service and administration says it will only come into effect by end of November 2021.,
Now what is to say that the employer will leave up to the end of the deal this time around?
Government has made it clear that it doesn’t intend on keeping any of its promises. What is has done, was to keep workers chasing a mirage.
As a union which did not sell workers at the alter of convenience like many others, we will continue fighting for the rights of public servants.