Ban labour brokers, says CWU Staff Writer Sapa | 11 March, 2010 *The failure to ban labour brokers undermines the freedom charter, says the Communications Workers Union*
Regulating labour brokers instead of banning them will be a total betrayal and liquidation of the Freedom Charter, the Communications Workers Union said on Thursday. It said this following reports that parliament's portfolio committee on Labour intended to make proposals for the amendment of certain labour laws to regulate labour brokers instead of banning them completely. "If these intentions by the portfolio committee are legitimate, they raise serious suspicions that the committee members are cowardly undermining the Freedom Charter and the electoral commitment of the ANC of creating decent work," it said in a statement. "It is our contention as CWU that decent work cannot co-exist with labour brokers. To us labour brokers represent the worse form of human slavery in this modern day and age," it said. The union called on committee chairwoman Lumka Yengeni to make public outcomes of the public hearings on labour brokers. "Failure by the committee to declare publicly the outcome of the public hearings will reinforce our long-held views that some sections of the ANC high echelons or tenderpreneurs are using democratic parliamentary processes to silence or undermine popular desires and aspirations as it relates to labour brokers. "We are not blind to the fact that some of our leaders are entrenched in business and labour brokering and banning labour brokers is not within their selfish and accumulation interests," the union said. -- 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] .
