Cosatu and other unions and civil society groupings, will stage a national strike against the rising cost of living, fuel costs and load-shedding on Wednesday. File photo.As trade unions plan to shut down the country on Wednesday, Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi says the strike will be about enforcing the economic rights of workers and the rest of civil society.
Losi said this also did not take away from the fact that the ANC government had achieved major milestones such as introducing minimum wage to benefit domestic and farm workers. Vavi said the national march dubbed National Day of Action is a start of the total emancipation of the working class from poverty, inequality and oppression.
For this to change, decision-makers will have to first acknowledge that poverty is not accidental, but it flows from the logic of the capitalist system. This capitalist system has been propped up by government policies for over a quarter of a century," said Pamla. He said they were not necessarily in disagreement with the reasons behind the strike, but that its national executive committee did not see it necessary for them to participate in the action at this time.
The strike action has been called in terms of section 77 of the Labour Relations Act which makes provision for no work, no pay.of SA also said it expected the day to be business as usual for its members. Executive director Michael Lawrence said companies will have to decide on how best to manage the absence of staff or any disruptions in their respective areas of operation. Lawrence said there was no way of telling whether revenue losses would be experienced as a result of the strike.
From day1 on the job, that was the time for Gvt to 'sit up and find ways of alleviating financial pressures on the working class' Why are the unemployed left out in that short sentence, how has a shut down, historically including destruction of Property enabled a positive result
You get what you voted for _cosatu ..leave us alone
We can't support COSATU , they are clowns, they never protested again illegal COVID