NEHAWU WILL NOT ALLOW ITS MEMBERS AND WORKERS TO WORK IN UNSAFE BUILDINGS
Friday September 07, 2018
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] wishes to inform the public that since the 15th August 2018 it had taken a decision not to allow its members to enter at the National Department of Health Offices because of serious health and safety issues, unfortunately after numerous complaints to management it fell on deaf ears.
On Wednesday, the 5th September 2018 at 18h56 in the evening the lawyers of the Minister of Health tried to ambush NEHAWU by serving papers on the union for an urgent application which was to be heard at 19h00 on the same evening at the Gauteng North High Court. The Minister was seeking to interdict our members by forcing them to return to work.
Despite the union having to scramble to respond, we managed to postpone the matter to be heard on the next day, Thursday 6thSeptember 2018. As soon as we had enough time to put together a legal team to oppose the application, the Minister eventually withdrew the application late in the evening yesterday.