- Title
- Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter September, 1987
- Creator
- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Subject
- Labour unions -- South Africa
- Subject
- Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 1987-09
- Date
- 1987-09
- Type
- text
- Type
- pamphlet
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98243
- Identifier
- vital:31558
- Description
- On 31 July the Town Clerk of Diepmeadow Council (Soweto) told 12 meter readers that a private company was taking over the meter reading section of the council. So meter readers were no longer employed by the council. At once 1,200 TGWU council workers went on strike and demanded the reinstatement of the 12 workers. The 12 workers were reinstated but the workers continued the strike demanding the dismissal of Noel Gaum, the Town Clerk. The council agreed to meet about Gaum so workers returned to work. But after the meeting Gaum was not dismissed. So workers struck for 2 more days. Workers, clerks, township managers and social workers were united in calling for Gaum's dismissal. Gaum worked before as town clerk in Lekoa and Tumahole Councils and was not liked. Diepmeadow workers outlined 37 grievances against Gaum. Some of these grievances are that Gaum is rascist, that he is rude to workers, that he never consults workers on anything, and that when the council was upgraded to a city council Gaum got a 20% salary increase but workers did not. In response to worker demands the Diepmeadow Council dismissed Gaum and gave workers the 20% increase they demanded.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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