Issued by: Gauteng Provincial Government
Three Local Government and Housing Ministers from Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West held talks with the National leadership of the South African Municipal Workers Union in Johannesburg tonight. Both the MECs team and the union have showed willingness to expedite the situation and also committed themselves to ensuring that a process be set in motion to speedily resolve the dispute in the wage talks.
The parties agreed that discipline and caution be exercised during the process so as to ensure that conditions that can exercebate the current situation are not created.
SAMWU has reaffirmed its commitment to putting its weight behind all efforts of ensuring the successful holding of the upcoming municipal elections. A follow up meeting aimed at assessing progress has been scheduled for next week Monday (02/10/1995).
These talks follows an announcement made earlier this morning by the Gauteng Local Government and Housing Minister Mr. Dan Mofokeng while addressing striking SAMWU members at the Library Gardens. He said that the three MECs will meet SAMWU national leadership to discuss ways of finding a solution to the current wage deadlock.
Issued by the Media Liaison Unit Gauteng Ministry of Local Government and Housing P.O. Box 4414 Johannesburg 2000 Pager 457-1111 code 7293 27 Sept 1995