Public Service workers belonging to the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) embarked on a lunchtime picket at the Department of Correctional Services in Vereeniging. The protests are part of the union's plans to mobile workers to reject the government's proposed 3% wage increase in the public sector. Cosatu unions in the public sector have threatened to down tools if the government doesn't revise the current offer to a 10% that is above the inflation rate. The workers have also raised concerns about staff shortage and corruption at the Leeuhof Correctional Centre in Vereeniging.
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