Talks continue amid workers' strike outside parly
Parliament and its Nehawu staff members are no closer to resolving a stand-off that has disrupted business at the precinct since Monday.
Striking support staff and Parliament's office bearers were locked in a crisis meeting for most of yesterday following chaotic scenes there on Wednesday.
While parliamentary staff have defied the court order that parliament obtained to prevent them from protesting in the precinct, workers insist that they will continue to strike and protest until their demands are met.
Parliament, however, appears to be equally inflexible in its argument that bonus payments have been negotiated and bedded down and cannot be changed by a wildcat strike.
As workers face the reality that they are not being paid for the days they miss work during this unprotected strike, their frustration has shifted to include a call for the Secretary of parliament, Gengezi Mgidlana, to be fired.
(File photo: Mabine Seabe)