JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – NOVEMBER 26: COSATU acting general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali during the fourth day of Cosatu’s 12th elective congress on November 26, 2015 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than 2,500 delegates are attending the conference to engage on several issues and elect new leadership. (Photo by Gallo Images […]
Nationwide strike by Cosatu to be held next month
Miners, farm works, retail and commercial workers, security guards, nurses, teachers, police and all other workers who belong to Cosatu will all embark on strike action next month.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – NOVEMBER 26: COSATU acting general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali during the fourth day of Cosatu’s 12th elective congress on November 26, 2015 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than 2,500 delegates are attending the conference to engage on several issues and elect new leadership. (Photo by Gallo Images […]
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) will stage a nationwide shut down next month.
Bheki Ntshalintshali, Cosatu’s secretary general, says industrial action will come as a result of workers who are continuously exposed by their employers.
“The mineworkers who produce our wealth and carrying this economy on their backs are unhappy to be earning a tiny fraction of the surplus they produce‚” said Ntshalintshali.
“Farm workers who produce our food and are feeding the nation are angered by the near-slavery working conditions they are subjected to.
“Retail and commercial workers‚ many of them casualised women without basic benefits‚ are complaining that they are barely surviving and they are even struggling to make enough to pay for their transport.
“Security workers who protect us‚ and transport workers who take us to work every day and keep the wheels of the economy rolling were telling us that they are forced to work unbelievably long hours for a pittance.
“Our nurses‚ teachers and police feel that they are not being fairly paid for the valuable services they provide.”
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