CWU spokesman Pheane Ramoadi said workers were picketing in Centurion, Milpark in Johannesburg, Springs, and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
“This will followed by a national march to Telkom Towers next week Tuesday. Yesterday workers in Gauteng marched to headquarters. Next week they will be joined by workers from all the nine provinces.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Telkom was given three days to accede to the worker’s demands or face a full-scale strike. Workers indicated in a memorandum that they would not settle for anything less than an eight percent increase across the board.<\/p>\n
“The three days lapse on Friday. We will meet next week Tuesday (August 11) while they request more money from their board.”<\/p>\n
The workers initially demanded a 13% increase but settled for 7.5% if Telkom would first alter “racialised” salary scales.<\/p>\n
Ramoadi said white employees dominated higher salary scales while employees on lower scales were black.<\/p>\n