Sections of the bourgeoisie media, with their analyst and academics have again
missed the point and are trying by all means to vilify COSATU for trying to do
its job, which is to represent workers. Their arguments are too silly for a
serious response, so here I won’t respond to them but it is important to put
the actions of COSATU into context.
COSATU and its affiliated unions are calling for an urgent implementation of
the Occupational Specific Dispensations (OSDs) and the outstanding aspects of
the Resolution 1 of 2007 in the public service. Apparently both of these are
outstanding matters which evolved out of the 2007 progressive public service
strike.
In actual reality the public service workers were not just patient, but did not
want to paint a bad image of the ANC as it was campaigning to be brought back
into power. By this the workers were not compromising their struggle, but were
investing into what appears to be a good manifesto and policy framework
presented by the ANC.
I personally admire the strength, resilience and discipline of public service
workers of this land, as organised by COSATU, who in their numbers voted for
the Jacob Zuma led ANC government as they knew that it will address, if not so,
pay attention to their needs, demands and aspirations. Nothing prevented these
workers from going on strike before the elections, but their discipline. Even
thought their employer, they had confidence in the ANC government, especially
under President Jacob Zuma.
Leaders of all COSATU affiliates who went department to department, clinic to
hospital, school to university campaigning for the ANC heard their grievances
and noted their urgency. They promised to be patient but soon after elections,
wild-cat strikes began to erupt, the doctors’ strike is by far one example.
The current call by COSATU should be interpreted in this manner, as it is this
way. Analysts should stop trying to find inner or deeper meanings when the
meaning is out there in the open. The public service workers are demanding
nothing but urgency and decisiveness and are saying if this does not happen
they will resort to their only form of power which is mass action.
So capitalist sponsored analyst, must please stop coming with faulty analysis,
didn’t they learn from their faulty analysis of the election results? COSATU
explains this clear when it says its action is informed by a ground analysis
which indicates that any further delay is bound to escalate the already
persistent anger and frustration the public service workers have. That is what
is meant by the Ticking Time Bomb ready to explode if not attended to.
Yours in Class Struggle
Luzuko Buku
YCL Rhodes
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