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The Private Security Sector Labour Unions Against Non-Compliance (PSSLANC)
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Unions Picket North West Premier Against Fraud and Corruption in the Private Security
Security officers will picket outside the Offices of the Premier of the North West in Mmabatho
in protest over the perpetual irregular and fraudulent salary deductions of security officers in
the province.
By.PSSLANC – 28th Aug 2024
Campaign to force security firms kicks off
Campaign to force security firms kicks off
By.PSSLANC – 30th July 2024
Private security sector labour against non-compliance launches new website
The Private Security Sector Labour Against Non-Compliance (PSSLANC), an enduring partnership of labour unions organising in the private
security sector is delighted to announce the launch of its new website. The brand-new site has
gone live today
By.PSSLANC – 5th June 2024
Security guard unions gun for PSIRA’s lax rules
Labour unions have petitioned the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA), which is tasked with regulating the industry, demanding that it intervene in the battle against irregular deductions of millions of rands from workers’ salaries for benefits they do not receive.
Security guard unions gun for PSIRA’s lax rules
By.Sandile Motha – 20th May 2024
Battle on two fronts takes toll on security guards battered by late salary payments, unpaid medaid benefits
Workers posted at national key points and public hospitals threaten industrial action in a fight that has been going on for years.
Unions angry about ‘noncomplying’ security companies
Numsa urges Mpumalanga treasury to stop dealing with firms not complying with bargaining council requirements.
Unions angry about ‘noncomplying’ security companies
By LUYOLO MKENTANE | published in Business Day on 06 AUGUST 2023
South African workers march to defend healthcare benefits
1st November 2023
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members marched to the offices of Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Bloemfontein on Monday, to demand that the regulator stops bosses from defrauding security workers out of their medical insurance benefits.
High Court orders SABC’s 2017 security contract be set aside
The High Court in Johannesburg has ordered that the decision by the SABC to award a contract worth R185-million to Mafoko Security in 2017, be set aside.
High Court orders SABC’s 2017 security contract be set aside
Cosatu targets ‘criminal’ private security companies
TRADE union federation Cosatu has thrown its weights behind a campaign to take on private security companies which are not complying with an agreement to pay towards workers’ healthcare benefits.
Cosatu targets ‘criminal’ private security companies
BY LUCAS LEDWABA ON 08/07/2023
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About PSSLANC
It has been revealed that scores of security companies fail to provide their workers with medical benefits and provident fund due to the workers despite deducting millions from their salaries for the same service as part of a bargaining council agreement. Even worse, some security companies do not allocate money for healthcare benefits and provident funds thus pickpocketing the workers, as these benefits end up being assigned to owners and senior managers, as profits and bonuses respectively – a sophisticated way of stealing from poorly paid security officers.
The leadership of AWU, KAWU, NUMSA and SATAWU, guided by their revolutionary consciousness and the Marxist slogan “Workers of the world unite”, are clear that workers united can never be defeated, as they have nothing to lose except their chains! Fourteen unions in the private security sector have signed the Main Collective Agreement, including: SAIWU, PTAWU, SANSAWF, and DETAWU.
We believe the fight against exploitation of security officers isn’t about charity, but about justice and equality. Our foundation is based on our relentless quest to represent, defend and advise private security sector stakeholders toempower security officers to hold their employers to account.
Whether running cutting-edge grassroots campaigns; opening criminal cases against directors of corrupt companies or lobbying government to stop doing business with non-compliant companies, the PSSLANC, through its #PayBackTheMoney campaign, pressures non-compliant and unscrupulous service providers to do more to fully comply with the Main Collective Agreement (MCA) of the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector (NBCPSS).
PSSLANC partners come from every walk of life. They’re political parties and activists, media, and federation of unions. They act day in, day out — organising, mobilising, educating, and advocating to liberate poorly paid security officers from the yoke of rich but greedy bosses.
Co-founded by Private Security Sector labour unions, for Private Security Sector workers, PSSLANC is strictly nonpartisan and does not solicit funding from the public or receive government funds. It is funded almost entirely by the unions, individual philanthropists and corporate partners.
Purpose and Values
The Private Security Sector Labour Unions Against Non-Compliance (PSSLANC) represents the views and interests of the majority of labour unions organising in the Private Security Sector in SA. It is mandated to act according to specific purposes and within agreed values and in the best interest of the security officers.
Defend…and Advance!
The main purpose of the PSSLANC is to defend the hard-fought gains workers made when they signed the NBCPSS’ Main Collective Agreement (MCA). Compliance with the MCA includes, inter alia:
- registration with the Private Security Sector Provident Fund
- registration for health insurance
- payment of levies
- payment of a minimum wage and overtime work when it is due.
In Fulfilling this Purpose, the Private Security Sector Labour Unions Against Non-Compliance will:
Defend the interest of security officers in all matters of mutual interest between themselves and their employers to improve the standard of living of union members, workers and the working class in general. As progressive trade unions, we shall never apologise for standing up for the poor and working class. We shall never apologise for asserting the constitutional rights of workers. We shall never apologise for demanding a better life for our members including quality private healthcare, provident fund, minimum wage and overtime pay.
To this end, the PSSLANC established the popular worker-driven #PayBackTheMoney campaign to advance the rights of security officers by ensuring that employers fully comply and adhere to the laws of the country that give life to the MCA. The security officers see the MCA as a document giving expression to their rights as security officers, and the rights of employers. When employers violate these laws and the MCA, they violate the security officers and their families.
PARTNERS
The pre-distinguished labour unions, Awu, Kawu, Numsa, Sansawf and Satawu agreed to have a campaign focusing on liberating security officers from the exploitation by greedy bosses and corrupt senior managers in the Private Security Sector. To this end, the pre-eminent labour unions established the steering committee which provides advisory support to the campaign.
