eThekwini metro police head Eugene Nzama has been added to a list of senior metro police officials Samwu members want suspended.
After another mass meeting and hours of protest, the union’s members applied for permission for a march to the Durban City Hall next week.
They hope the new municipal manager, S’bu Sithole, will address them then.
Samwu also warned that other departments in the municipality had already signalled their intention to join them in a show of sympathy.
The industrial action started in December with a go-slow over a number of unresolved workplace grievances. These included calls for the suspension of Rajen Chin, the head of specialised units in the metro police, and Monty Naidoo, the senior human resources manager.
Following threats to disrupt the city over the festive season, Chin was given a letter by former municipal manager Michael Sutcliffe telling him he would be redeployed. However, before this came into effect, Sutcliffe overturned it.
Last week Chin said he was probably out of favour because he was an honest worker who had been involved in disciplinary proceedings where people had been dismissed.
Some of the union’s other demands are that contract workers be given permanent posts, and that metro employees over the age of 30 be given the right to become fully fledged metro police officers.
A municipal spokesman said yesterday that the matter had been brought to the attention of Sithole, and that a meeting between the management and the union would be held soon.
Nzama refused to comment on Tuesday. - The Mercury