The demands of the walkers at Eskom, council

Hundreds of people protested in Bellville yesterday, walking from Eskom offices to the Building Industry Bargaining Council (BIBC), where they handed two memoranda.

About 200 members of the SACP and the National Union of Miners have been on the streets protesting the imminent increase in electricity tariffs, the establishment of independent electricity providers and the review of Eskom's executive and the recall of CEO Phakamani Hadebe.

The protesters also called for a change in the membership system and the end of the "handling of membership funds by the BIBC" and demanded the improvement of capacity and of the inspection survey of the Ministry of Labor. Cape Town Regional Secretary Sonwabile Fisa said: "We have made urgent appeals to the BIBC and the Labor Department, and we are giving them the opportunity to listen and correct their wrongs."

"If we do not do it," In the submission to the BIBC, the director of operations, Mike Caldecott, said the board should: "We must go directly to the companies that do not comply with the requirements of the BIBC. BIBC: correcting the membership issue when union members become members of other unions without consent and payrolls show deductions for these unions [19659002] Among the other issues addressed in the memorandum were workers who were forced to return to work before the end of their leave, and no compensation was rewarded and traveling in dangerous transportation.

Caldecott was stated that he would hand over the memorandum to

The Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Labor, David Esau, accepted and signed the memorandum that was handed to him.

It states: "We demand the tran part of the death investigations concerning our members that occur in the construction industry. "

SACP provincial spokesman Zuko Mndayi said the two agencies would have seven days to respond. The march comes after the unions rejected a 7% pay raise from Eskom on Friday.

Eskom spokesman, Khulu Phasiwe, said the parties would meet again on Tuesday.

"Negotiations by their very nature are mutual concessions."

"We are now at 7% now and the fact that all parties are always willing to talk means we can find a common ground, because that's all about keeping the lights on" , he said.