Municipal Strike turns ugly.

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FlatspinZA

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This lady I work with ran into the Toy-toying municipal workers this morning when she went to drop off wages. The mob surrounded her jeep, and a dreadlocked protester ran alongside her car with a baseball bat shouting, "Say one effing word and see what I do to your car!" Luckily the people she was dropping wages off for came out of their place of work & rescued her, escorting her safely into the car park.

They were smashing front & rear lights on vehicles parked on the side of the road. One of the protesters lifted a rubbish bin into the air and flung it full force onto the bonnet of a parked Mercedes Benz.

Two police vans arrived and were firing rubber bullets and stun grenades at the mob, which then split into three groups going in different directions making it difficult for the police to control them.

What gets me is the damage to the private property of people who have nothing to do with this at all.

If a street sweeper, as interviewed on TV, gets paid R5800 & wants a 20% increase, he'd be earning R7000 for sweeping streets. When asked how many children he had, he said that he had six. Alright, Mr Rocket Scientist, is it the Government's fault you have so many children and cannot come out on your salary? Do you have any qualifications? No, he says!

The best paid jobs in the country and you're destroying the property of the very people who pay your salary!
 
Not even metioning the benefits they get! At the end they always get what they want, they're like rude children who gets rewarded for bad behavior.

Oink!
 
First sign of disorderliness= rubber.

Normal people can walk down the street,, singing songs, waving placards etc. to get their point across. They've already taken a day off work. It takes a bunch of savages to fsck things up as they go along- they need to be dealt with harshly. Shoot the troublemakers/instigators first.
 
Wow a street sweeper gets 5.8k a month and complaining?

One Carl gustav into the crowd and bam call in the cleaners and move on with the day.
 
Total crap protesters should be jailed when damaging property. They cannot expect the public to support there cause when they act like riff raff. If what killaboob says it's true then I say STUFF THEM DONT GIVE THEM A INCREASE. :mad:
 
NO the municipal workers are "K@K", useless uneducated, savages that as stated previously are so unintelligent they dont realise that all the mess they are making, they will have to clean up anyway!
 
Yes slinky but 5.8k in my opinion is paid well. Honestly not many people let alone black people can say they earn that.

I could understand if they were getting paid 2k but 5.8k a month is pretty darn good i reckon
 
Blaze786 said:
NO the municipal workers are "K@K", useless uneducated, savages that as stated previously are so unintelligent they dont realise that all the mess they are making, they will have to clean up anyway!
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Lets hold thumbs that the strike is over before the World cup. We really do not want to allow overseas visitors to see in what conditions we live. I can already see the headlines. " South Africans are dirty and live like pigs" LOL!
 
This would actually be easy to resolve. Update the law so that the moment public or private property is purposefully targeted by a paid up member of the union in the mob that strike becomes illegal and they lose all protection. It becomes no work, no pay and any mobs that start forming are dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas.

As long as it is peaceful and orderly their right to strike is respected. I'm guessing the person who ruins the strike for everyone will be dealt with by his fellow strikers.
 
BrendanD said:
The solution - live rounds.
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-10% of the managers pay, and fat cats in related departments. distribute that to the workers as a raise. then strikers on next round be shot.
 
BrendanD said:
This would actually be easy to resolve. Update the law so that the moment public or private property is purposefully targeted by a paid up member of the union in the mob that strike becomes illegal and they lose all protection. It becomes no work, no pay and any mobs that start forming are dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas.

As long as it is peaceful and orderly their right to strike is respected. I'm guessing the person who ruins the strike for everyone will be dealt with by his fellow strikers.
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+1 Seems so simple, doesn't it? Why can't anybody in a position of power ever see sense??
 
I'm Still voting live rounds..
and lock them up. Write in your employment clause that a criminal record incurred during strike action will result in immediate dismissal.
 
/*one day idiot (today I will be an idiot) :D PS: Please argue with me...... :D

….R5800 a month is too little...... u see how many waives and child we have .....

you see money of the CEO [the salary of CEO] compares to us..... we have NOTHING. :mad:

we have to fight .......the gap is still too high......

you white are earning too much........ our salaries should be the same as private companies.
 
BrendanD said:
This would actually be easy to resolve. Update the law so that the moment public or private property is purposefully targeted by a paid up member of the union in the mob that strike becomes illegal and they lose all protection. It becomes no work, no pay and any mobs that start forming are dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas.

As long as it is peaceful and orderly their right to strike is respected. I'm guessing the person who ruins the strike for everyone will be dealt with by his fellow strikers.
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This is an ilegal strike so they are not getting any pay. Distroying guavament property has laws and strickt laws. I can end up in jail for tearing a R10 in half.
Firstly the police should be educated on the laws they are enforcing.

Budza said:
+1 Seems so simple, doesn't it? Why can't anybody in a position of power ever see sense??
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In and R18 million rand house? paid for by these people? nope why would they see it?
 
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