Dear Moose, Have you noticed that you have posted in public a condemnation of Numsa and it's decisions.
I am disappointed to say the least. I will hold it there for now. Comradely, Cedric Gina Numsa President. Sent from my iPad On 19 Jan 2011, at 10:52, Moses Serobatse <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > > The NUMSA Youth Desk is a structure of young metalworkers which seeks to > advance the issues of young metal and related sector workers. it is > surprising that this structure is silent since the end of the YCLSA National > Congress which was held in Mafikeng North West Province, to my view this > structure of numsa is being established to fight self trade union politics in > all the elective conferences of the union. > > The December 2010 NUMSA central committee , intentionally so, rejected the > most of the youth desk recommendations for its normal functioning to meet it > objective, for example it was agreed in the last bilateral Meeting with the > YCLSA National leadership that the Youth desk should lead the banning of > labour Brokers, surprisinlgy ,so, non of this has happened, but when coming > to distroying ones political democratically elected position, the youth desk > is the champion. we have realised that THE ARE THOSE AMONGST NUMSA WHOM THEIR > TONGUE IS FILLIED WITH MALICE hence is so difficult for numsa to have the > vibrant youth desk and to my surprise NUMSA was labelled a REVOLUTIONARY, > VIBRANT, AND MILITANT trade union, but that has all vanished since the > politically appointment of one of the ex-employee of the YCLSA in the head > office. > > I am afraid that NUMSA CC has done a blunder by not appointing the > coordinator on a full time bases, this structure will never survive the next > decade, that means that NUMSA CC does'nt recognize its youth, young > metalworkers are being marginalised from participating in the constitutional > structures gatherings. > > if we look in the level of employment in the metal and related sectors young > people are the majority and are the most > Learned people who will need to conscientised about the important of joining > the trade union in particular numsa this is the responsibility of the youth > desk, now if young people are marginalised numsa wont have its memebrship > growing, for example when you call numsa the welcoming tone says numsa has > 263 000 members, the question is when will this membership increase as the > industries are mainly dominated by young people, and that majority of the > members are the older citizens. > > if we look at the new economical growth path of both COSATU and ANC the main > sector which will create jobs for the youth is the MANUFACTURING SECTOR, if > NUMSA doesnt serve the interests if its youth they wont catch them young.The > questions should be asked it is democratically wise to wear two caps with in > the workers organization? > > The other thing that I have observed is that NUMSA no longer serve the > interest of its memebers, it is no longer as militant as it use to be, it is > no longer as revolutionary as it use to be, it is no longer in the media as > it use to be, one should be aware that before the appointment the new media > desk officer, whom i think in my view he want to hijack the NUMSA Youth Desk > and fight the battle of the YCLSA to serve the interest of those who lost in > the last congress the youth desk has been buried alive. > > NUMSA should bring back its culture, lets focus on recruiting young workers > educate them about the importance of joinig the trade union, let us not focus > on personal gain but collective ones. > > NUMSA YOUTH DESK SHOULD RE-THINK ITS STRATEGY AND FIGHT TO LIBERATE YOUNG > WORKERS, FIGHT LABOUR BROKERS TO ITS TOTALITY > -- > MSEROBATSE > -- > 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] . -- 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] .
