Labour brokers are making a living through the toil of poor workers, the labour broker gets richer and the worker is on a constantly declining survival mode. In Gauteng, the call center industry, as identified by Cde Gugu, is a fastest growing industry, with majority of its employees as young people, many of whom are employed through brokers. These workers are either straight from matric or they do not have prior working experience, and ignorant and easy to lie to and to exploit. This is where the devil lives; I don’t think that there’s an industry with a turn over to match that of the call center. People are treated like gold mines here, with limited gold to be exhausted, and soon as it seems that the gold has been exhausted they are dumped for the next one. I remember being told that one employee had with him at work, a trade union pamphlet, and as soon as his boss saw that, he was issued with a six months final written warning. I am currently dealing with a painful case that is truly reflective of the exploitative nature of the call center.
Cde Mdu once wrote: “… Where a company provides services, management always looks at economic viability, size of staff and freezing of posts. And as result managers prefer casualisation and temporal employment as a progressive means of silencing employees”. Mdu was not talking about labour brokers here, but I think this line also explains the service offered by Labour Brokers to employers; keeping workers “permanently causal and permanently temporary”. It is sad to realize that a person who has chaired the ANC for ten years, a person we thought represented the poor people of this country, especially black people, has been a pretender all along. Wenza iintloni u-Terror Lekota, rha!!! Kanti who does COPE claim to represent? Because it is clear that the poor and the workers hate Labour Brokers. COPE was muttering rubbish about needing to re-look at Affirmative Action and the appropriateness of BEE, and now they are defending Labour Brokers Any man, especially a black man, who questions the necessity of a program designed to bring about equality in the economic life of our country, the necessity to make the economy of our country representative of its demographics, is a shameful opportunist, and if that man is a black man, then the term “traitor” fits him well. Comrades aaist maan, we need to unionise call centers! Labour Brokers MUST GO! On 10/9/09, morgan phaahla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Viva UFasimba!!! > > The withdrawal of the Democratic Alliance and COPE from participating in > the parliamentary hearings on labour brokers, is nothing else but a show of > consensus among a surrogate capitalist class to advance narrow interests. > Both DA and COPE knew that it will be impossible to defeat the ANC in a > public process, given that members of the public support the ANC in > objection of the practice of labour brokering. > > In fact, attempts were made by the labour movement to pinpoint salient > issues in order to challenge the self-serving view espoused by those who > seek labour brokers to regulate themselves rather than addressing the > exploitation that resulted from this practice. It's therefore conspicuous of > DA and COPE to withdraw from the proceedings without presenting arguments > for labour brokering. > > Clearly, this new alliance of a surrogate capitalist class want to reverse > democratic gains achieved since 1994 and thwart further efforts to realise > the policies of Polokwane. We cannot allow labour brokers to be employers > without employment in the same way the 1996 class project created > capitalists without capital. It's without doubt that most labour brokers > are historically white and only a small chunk is owned by black people > with debt equity arranged through BEE shares - let alone that beneficiaries > is a very small, politically-connected elite aligned with COPE. That is > why there is a marriage of convenience between DA and COPE to defend > labour brokers at the direct expense of the workers and the poor. > > It's well-known that DA represents a white capital while COPE is indebted > on the patronage of established white capital for its survival. I not > understand why anyone believes these lackeys will deliver a "new agenda for > change and hope for all" when they cannot even appreciate sham practices > associated with labour brokering in the context of taking forward the decent > work agenda. > > Abolish labour brokers to expose these fellow travellers who did not join > the struggle to be poor but to amass wealth for their own self-benefit! > > Remain > Morgan Phaahla > Ekurhuleni > > > "Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - > Joe Slovo > > --- On *Fri, 10/9/09, Gugu Ndima <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > > From: Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] The YCLSA calls upon the newly weds”COPE&DA” to > accept the fate of Labour brokers > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 3:19 AM > > > > *The YCLSA calls upon the newly weds”COPE&DA” to accept the fate of Labour > brokers* > > *08 0ctober 2009* > > The Young communist league of South Africa (UFasimba) has observed with > contempt the tendencies, the reactionary marriage between COPE and DA on the > issue of Labour brokers. Since the matter of Labour brokers has been brought > to the public platform for debate, they have attempted in all possible ways > to undermine the call of the majority to ban them. > > The Young communist league urges them to refrain from utilising nonsensical > tactics in order to ensure that the public deviates from the crux of the > matter. The process has been respected by all stakeholders and no one can > undermine the tensions that have been created as a result of the existence > of this perverse practise that seeks to undermine decent employment. > > The DA and COPE brigade further wanted to make a simplistic anaylysis of > how Labour brokers can regulate themselves. This will just affirm Labour > brokers in society and would be a continuation of what they are currently > doing, which is in actual fact self-regulation. > > The DA and COPE must just accept the fate of the whole practise and respect > the views of the majority which are the poor and the working class in this > instance. We reiterate our call that Labour brokers must be BANNED! > > Issued by the YCLSA Head office > > contact > > Gugu Ndima (076 783 1516) > > National spokesperson > > -- > Gugu Ndima > +27 76 783 1516 > > > > > -- Kind Regards, Thamsanqa Tu I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to death your right to say it - Voltaire --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. 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