Pikitup on strike again?

If the garden depot is overflowing again I'm dumping refuse bags on the open lot adjoining the depot. Sick and tired of them piling up and the swine didn't take the extra bags last time they came back from striking :(
 
Baba Vakai said:
Once upon a time in SA
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You are right, you can't complain that Apartheid knew how to handle these people. Now everyone is just too aftaid and foreign investors say SA is *** let's invest elsewhere.

Sinbad said:
Fire them. We have 40 percent unemployment. You don't want to work you don't have to. Give your job to someone who does.
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Exactly, but you monkeys don't understand economics and reasoning.
 
http://sbeta.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/christmas-trash-crisis-averted-1962142

Christmas trash crisis averted
NEWS/SOUTH-AFRICA/GAUTENG /
19 December 2015 at 11:38am
By: Rabbie Serumula

An 11th-hour deal between Pikitup and striking SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) workers has saved Joburg residents from more trash piling up on the city’s streets over the festive season.

Pikitup managed to avert a crisis of another illegal strike by successfully negotiating an extra R1 000 as a 14th cheque for workers.

They will also receive an extra R1 000 with their January salaries, which will cover the workers for the period before the City of Joburg re-examines pay structures for all its entities, at the end of February.

“We agreed on one issue, and that was that members will receive an additional payment of R1 000 on Tuesday and R1 000 again in January,” Samwu deputy regional secretary Paul Tlhabang told the Saturday Star last night. He said the decision to compensate employees with this additional payment will be officially finalised at a meeting today.

Yesterday’s meeting came after a city-wide protest over unresolved salary disparities. In November, Samwu workers embarked on a two-week strike demanding a R10 000 basic salary for Pikitup workers.

The union also called for the axing of the company’s managing director, Amanda Nair, whom they accused of corrupt practices and nepotism. According to a statement from Gauteng Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Jacob Mamabolo’s office, the current negotiations with workers are part of a city-wide process and a broader discussion over issues including the introduction of an incentive scheme for workers and a re-evaluation of Pikitup staff salaries.

Currently, a refuse remover at Pikitup is paid R6 000 a month, making them the lowest paid in the city.
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So these workers already get a 13th cheque ?
 
Anyone know if they're on strike again? Can't find anything but usually my bin is emptied by 9.30am'ish and well yeah, its already 7.30pm and nothing yet

Edit... nevermind, within seconds of posting this I heard them coming down the road:)
 
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My bin was emptied the previous Wednesday. I should check what happens this week
 
Pikitup workers to continue striking

JOHANNESBURG – The City of Johannesburg’s waste removal service will be disrupted once again today as Pikitup workers continue with their strike.

Yesterday, workers demonstrated in Braamfontein after Pikitup scheduled a disciplinary hearing for six shop stewards over alleged misconduct. The shop stewards did not attend the hearing. South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu)’s Nonceba Mbilini has accused Pikitup management of trying to delay the implementation of agreements reached last year.
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More at:http://ewn.co.za/2016/02/05/Pikitup-workers-continue-strike
 
My trash wasn't picked up yesterday either. Some people in my street left their trash out over night.
 
No pikitup.
No electricity
And water pressure down to a trickle

#WorldClassAfrican****heap
#WorldClassMyArse
 
Sinbad said:
No pikitup.
No electricity
And water pressure down to a trickle

#WorldClassAfrican****heap
#WorldClassMyArse
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Convince your company to move HO down to Durban.. things work down here for some reason... and we have the beach.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Convince your company to move HO down to Durban.. things work down here for some reason... and we have the beach.
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if anywhere, it'll be cape town ;)
Though I'm pushing for the tax benefits of moving to the comores or something!
 
Whats the reason this time?

I swear it seems that the only skill a Pikitup employee needs is "how to strike"
 
Do they realise how menial their work is? Do they feel they are skilled labourers and as such deserve massive increases?
 
Angry Pikitup workers striking, again

Johannesburg - Bring out your bins, or maybe don’t if you prefer not to have its contents strewn across the street.

Angry Pikitup employees once again embarked on an unprotected strike on Wednesday, this time over salary grievances. Many are also still calling for the removal of Pikitup managing director Amanda Nair. This is the fourth unprotected strike that Pikitup employees have embarked on since December.

On Wednesday, they moved through the streets under the banner of the SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) as they made their way from various Pikitup depots across Joburg central to Samwu House in the Joburg CBD.

On their way to Samwu House, the protesters trashed the streets, strewing garbage and refuse all over the roads.

They also blocked several streets across the city and Braamfontein, including Louis Botha Avenue, Civic Boulevard, Juta Street and parts of Rissik Street.

From Samwu House the protesters moved towards the Metropolitan Centre, where the Joburg mayor’s office is situated.

They set a small fire in the outer square, sang Struggle songs and danced while brandishing sticks.

One protester, who identified himself as Thando, said workers had been promised a salary increase in December but this had not happened.

“We deserve better wages, it’s not fair, they mustn’t lie to us! We want our money and we will use our rights to fight for it,” he said.

Another protester, Esther, said she earns only R5 000 a month and can no longer support her family.

“Amanda knows what we are fighting for. I want to earn the R9 000 that was promised to me. Amanda is killing us, she wants us to suffer,” she said.
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/angry-pikitup-workers-striking-again-1996177
 
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