Impoverished workers barricade N2
Workers providing cleaning services to the City of Cape Town through an outsourced company have not been paid their February and March salaries.
Toilet cleaners
Toilet cleaners strike over non-payment
The workers have resorted to strike action to get the cleaning company and the City of Cape Town to pay what is due to them.
Toilet cleaners work under poor working conditions
Toilet cleaners in East London are complaining about bad working conditions. Working under the Expanded Public Works Programme, the cleaners, the majority of them women, say they do not get protective gear and sometimes have to buy cleaning materials themselves. Some work without an uniform.
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