Union secures funeral insurance cover for members

The Metropolitan Life product attracts a monthly premium of P27 per month. Under the policy, the beneficiary, spouse and their children aged 16 to 20 get a cover of P20 000 each, while children aged six to 15 are covered at P10 000 each and stillborns to five year olds are covered at P5 000 each.

NALCGPMWU president, Johnson Motshwarakgole told Mmegi yesterday that they have been negotiating the deal with Metropolitan for a while following a conference in 2007 which resolved that the union should secure insurance cover for members. "We delayed to join because of three conditions that we were still negotiating with Metropolitan. We felt that because we were joining as a huge group, we should be able to bargain for some conditions," he said.