SAPS LEGAL THREATS AGAINST POPCRU MEMBERS Issued by POPCRU on 04 June 2013 The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has noted with disdain several threats of Disciplinary Action levelled against our members who took part in a march last week. Thousands of administrative staff from the SAPS marched to Police offices in Limpopo, KZN, Mpumalanga, Free State, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng. The employer told the media that these members were embarking on an illegal strike, a statement we refuted repeatedly as these members were taking part in a legal march as stipulated in the Gatherings Act of South Africa. POPCRU will fight tooth and nail to ensure that none of our members are charged or punished for having exercised their democratic right as it’s the intention of SAPS. POPCRU also wants to remind the employer that the several letters they keep sending our members constitute as an illegal act as they are threatening these members without laying any concrete charges. They are in turn making the lives of these workers who are already disadvantaged hell. We urge SAPS to rather concentrate on finding solutions to the demands laid to them by the workers instead of resorting to threats and scare tactics. POPCRU has given them 14 days to implement the demands and we advise them to use these days effectively as failure to do so will result in intensive action. Workers in the North West have expressed to the union their readiness to take to the streets this coming Friday as they march demanding that SAPS implements the SSSBC Agreement 2/2011 that would translate them into the SAPS Act. They will also demand the implementation of the DPSA Directive that would improve their Grades from 1-4 to Level 5.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:46:06 +0000
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