Metro Rail Protection Service Workers stage protest at Cape Town Station
Metrorail private security workers
alongside Economic Freedom Fighters members took to The Cape Town station where
they staged a protest towards the poor treatment and working conditions of
staff members within the Metrorail protection services.
A memorandum stating all the staff’s
demands drawn up by Metrorail’s private security workers was handed to Ernest
Hendricks and Phindile September the head of Metrorail protection services.
In May 2013 there was an advert at Metrorail
that stated that all private security workers working under Metrorail should
apply to be part of such learnership.
The workers applied for this but only to
find out not even 10 percent of the poor staff members applications were
considered instead people from retail industry and from other provinces but
those of greener pastures.
Shop steward of IRIS security compnay Luyanda Gosi said we are here to
drop a memorandum to the head of protection services Ernest Hendricks.
“We are demanding we get permanent employment as the people who are
protecting Metrorail’s assets Gosi added.
Eff regional leader in Western Cape Lephalo X Mohoto said these workers
are working under dangerous circumstances.
Mohoto said they are shot on a daily basis because of criminals who
won’t stop at nothing to steal railway cables. These workers don't even have
bullet proof vests to protect themselves and when there injured the companies
don’t pay them out.
“When they die there is no pay out and therefore on behalf of those
workers we ask that the head of Metrorail protection services answer these
demands put forward by their workers Mohoto added
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