* NUMSA NUMSA Media Alert, 28 August 2010* *Metalworkers march today in affluent Sandton **NATIONAL* *UNION OF METALWORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA* (NUMSA) members will today march in the affluent and exclusive Johannesburg suburb of Sandton for a living wage and sustainable livelihoods.
NUMSA, representing 70,000 workers working in garages, components, workshops and automotives sectors will be marching tomorrow Saturday 28 August 2010, Sandton, Gauteng province. This march forms part of the organisational strategy to exert pressure to the captains of the motor industry to accede to workers demands for improved conditions of employment and decent wages.
The march will be led by national leadership of NUMSA, namely General Secretary Cde *IRVIN JIM*, President Cde *CEDRIC GINA*, Deputy General Secretary Cde* KARL CLOETE,* 2^nd Deputy President Cde *CHRISTENE OLIVIER* and joined by the 2^nd Deputy President of COSATU Cde *ZINGISWA LOSI* and Young Communist League (YCLSA) National Secretary Cde *BUTI MANAMELA*.
A throng of 5,000 workers will converge at George Lea Park, Sandton in the morning to march through the streets of Sandton to hand-over a Memorandum of Demands to Business Unity South Africa (*BUSA*), Retailers Motor Industry (*RMI*), Fuel Retailers Association (*FRA*), Steel, Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (*SEIFSA*) and NTEIA.
This march will be taking place amidst the victory of NUMSA in Court late this evening after successfully interdicting the police for their refusal to issue the union with the permit. This Court victory by NUMSA was defiance and our intentions to stop what is clearly an abuse of state organs by the ruling class to muzzle and deny workers their constitutional rights to assemble and embark on protected industrial actions. This should serve as a indication to the ruling class that workers are not blind and their refuse to be subjected to the old apartheid police tactics of trampling upon their rights.
The details of the march are as follows:
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* *DATE: Saturday 28 August 2010*
* *TIME: 09h00*
* *VENUE: George Lea Park, Sandton, Gauteng*
Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report. Please
confirm attendance with *NUMSA National Spokesperson Castro Ngobese @
073 299 1595*
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