The leaders of the #OutsourcingMustFall campaign at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) appeared to threaten to halt operations at the institution on Thursday morning. In a statement announcing a “press conference – escalating to shut down TUT”‚ it said workers “have entered their fourth week of strike action” after refusing to accept an agreement signed by the National Education‚ Health and Allied Workers' Union.#OutsourcingMustFall said it is a “union that these workers have never been members of and has indeed tried to play a strike-breaking role – without any of the workers representatives present”.“Workers rejected this diktat and the denial of their basic democratic rights to organise and represent themselves‚” it said.Thursday’s press conference comes after Wednesday’s night vigil on campus.#OutsourcingMustFall spokesperson Mametlwe Sebei said‚ “The refusal of management to even discuss with representatives of workers is pig-headed and uncaring.“Workers are only asking to be treated like part of the TUT family. They are currently employed by parasite tenderpreneurs who pay them as little as R2000 per month for full-time work.“The TUT management uses their ‘outsourced’ status as an excuse to refuse them the benefits given to permanent staff. They are left out of the TUT family.”..