*NUMSA STATEMENT ON THE ANC’s RESPONSE TO COSATU CEC STATEMENT* * *
*Monday 08 March 2010*** The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is disturbed by the tone and thrust of the African National Congress (ANC) response to Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Central Executive Committee (CEC) Statement. The ANC’s response undermines the long held set of protocols in the Alliance for purposes of engagement, including the fact of not questioning each others bona fides and grandstanding. The conspiratorial questioning of Cosatu’s intentions is completely unacceptable and unwarranted. We call on the ANC to uphold the protocols of engagement within our Allianceas contained in the previous Ekurhuleni Summits. On managing intra-alliance relations the Ekurhuleni Summit Declaration of April 7, 2002 stated, inter alia; - “Our organizations, though profoundly independent, are separate organizational formations with their own identities, policy-making mechanisms and internal organizational arrangements. In this regard, each component’s respects the independence of its allies”. - “Having examined the causes and the impact of the recent (2000-2002) intense public discord among some components of the Alliance, the Summitconcluded that this was an unfortunate development which we must not allow to recur…Where there are areas of difference, we are committed to resolving them through ongoing constructive debate”. As Numsa we fully support the articulations given by our Federation’s (Cosatu) General Secretary Cde Zwelinzima Vavi at a post CEC Press Briefing, and generally all his public utterances. Nothing that our Federation’s General Secretary Cde Vavi, including at the said Press Briefing, is by any stretch of imagination at variance with the analysis and resolutions of the CEC. We call on the Alliance Secretariat to convene an urgent meeting to deal with the issues emanating from the Cosatu CEC for the purposes of soliciting a shared understanding and programme. Contact: *Castro Ngobese* *National **Union** of Metalworkers of **South Africa** * *National Spokesperson – 073 299 1595* -- 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. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
