NUMSA * NUMSA Media Release, 25 October 2010* * NUMSA Supports French Workers!*The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) sends its unwavering and deepest feelings of solidarity forged through workers' international struggles for decent work and living wage with the refinery workers in France. The ongoing France's protests by refinery workers against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms is a direct rejection of global capitalism and a bipolar world order by workers -- just right at the centre of global capitalism - Europe.
Our members across the length and breadth of our country salute our ally and sister union -- CGT for their resolute and militancy in rejecting the proposed pension reforms in France.
This ongoing protest in France should be a lesson (although not identical to our South Africa case) for the broad section of workers in South Africa. In our country the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) which manages assets estimated to be at R740 Billion on behalf of government employees' pension funds. Already the chunk of R23,4 Billion of workers pension funds managed by PIC has been bloated to fund narrow BEE deals for the politically connected few and also to build opulent Malls such as Sandton City, Cresta and Pavilion for the rich in their suburbs, instead of addressing the historical and inherent apartheid developmental challenges of housing, health-care and infrastructure in working class and poor communities.
The France workers under the leadership of CGT should keep the red flag flying high in the interest of the workers and the poor. Their current struggle will remain an inspiration to the many struggles waged by workers for a better and alternative world order. France particularly Paris is revered by many workers across the globe for being the first assumption of power by the working class in world history -- Paris Commune.
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