*CWU CALLS ON LUMKA YENGENI TO DECLARE THE OUTCOMES OF PUBLIC HEARING ON LABOUR BROKERS*
* * *Thursday 11 March 2010*** The Communication Workers Union (CWU) notes with serious concern that parliament’s portfolio committee on Labour chaired by Cde Lumka Yengeni intends to make cosmetic proposals for the amendment of certain labour laws to regulate labour brokers, as opposed to out-rightly banning labour brokers. 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 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. The ANC has a revolutionary responsibility and duty to ban labour brokers given its parliamentary majority and informed by its political programme as encapsulated in the Freedom Charter which called for “*Child labour, compound labour, the tot system and contract labour shall be abolished*”. This clause should be guiding the ANC to protect our workers and the poor from slavery and exploitation from vultures masquerading as labour brokers. The regulation of labour brokers will be a total betrayal and liquidation of the Freedom Charter by the ANC government. Labour brokers must be banned in the interest of our workers and the poor. We demand that the portfolio committee declare publicly the outcome of the public hearings. The failure by the committee to adhere to this demand it will reinforce our long-held views that some sections in 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 bling 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. No amount of bullying, insults, labelling, name calling or being compared to the opposition will deter Cosatu affiliated unions to go to the streets in demand of labour brokers to be banned. This government under Zuma ascended to power through the sweat and hard efforts of workers and therefore workers’ interests and demands must form the core of the government’s programme and agenda. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised! Contact: *Matankana Mothapo, CWU National Spokesperson, 082 759 0900* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "CWU Media Releases" group. Visit this group at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cwu-media-releasesfor statement archives, pages and file downloads. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit the CWU web site at http://www.cwu.org.za/cms/ -- 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] .
