POPCRU picketing continues
NIGEL - Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) members continue to picket outside the Nigel and Devon Correctional Centres, as a number of issues remain unresolved.
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Members are protesting over issues such as the lack of overtime payment (working on public holidays without overtime payment) and no new uniforms for the past five years.
POPCRU demanded the establishment of a shift system, a promotion policy, implementation of occupational dispensation second phase, which is the recognition of experience for every five years worked in the department of Correctional Services since date of employment up to 30 June 2009.
Addressing POPCRU members in Pretoria on June 11, the chairman of Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre Mathews Phaahla said if Correctional Services ignored their demands, they would protest again from June 30 to July 14.
They would intensify their pickets to include marches throughout the country.
Meanwhile, the Department of Correctional Services have issued a draft memorandum of agreement, the terms and conditions of which are not publically known yet, nor is it clear whether POPCRU members will accept the terms set out in the agreement.
