WAGE DEAL DEADLOCK

COSATU’S biggest affiliate is not backing down from its refusal to campaign for the ANC ahead of this year’s local government elections due to the government’s failure to increase public servants’ salaries.

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) will stick to its resolution despite President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plea on Workers’ Day to the country’s leading trade union federation that among the tripartite alliance’s immediate tasks was developing a common platform around mobilising and winning the municipal polls set