Dear Cde Mercy, I did reply to your e-mail, and so did another comrade.
Your question was: "Can somebody assist us with Placement and Promotion
policy of Municipality, I am a shopsteward of SAMWU we are working without
this policies. We need to compare and formulate one for our municipality."
As I replied before, I am not able to assist you, but you got an offer of
assistance from Cde Vanguard. I hope you followed up on that good offer.
I respect you as a shop steward and I know how difficult that can be. You
are quite right to look for information everywhere. But sometimes, comrade,
no means no. The answer to "Can I assist?" is no. Sorry about that. I just
don't have this knowledge.
With best wishes,
Dominic ("VC")
On 8 April 2011 09:12, mercy matamela <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cde! m trying to call u no answer inregard with the policies we requested
> we are going for LLF meeting 10h00 today,
> We wanted to take it on board after checking where we can amend.
> Pls
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> [image: Business Day]
>>
>>
>> *Important plan could do a lot more *
>>
>>
>> *Editorial, Business Day, Johannesburg, 8 April 2011 *
>>
>> THE updated industrial policy action plan (IPAP2) was launched this week
>> without the attention it deserves. The Department of Trade and Industry has
>> decided to implement the programme over a three-year period and evaluate it
>> annually, in the same way the Treasury’s budget is handled. This is an
>> improvement as it will in theory allow regular adjustments to be made with
>> input from all of SA’s social partners — the government, business and
>> labour.
>>
>> The big question is whether this co-ordination will happen, given that the
>> plan is widely seen as top- down intervention in the economy by a government
>> with unrealistic or unreachable goals.
>>
>> The IPAP2 is a blueprint aimed at invigorating SA’s beleaguered
>> manufacturing sector and creating enough jobs to slash the country’s
>> unemployment rate to 15% from 24% in the coming decade.
>>
>> The programme will be driven by R66bn of concessional loans from the
>> Industrial Development Corporation to sectors seen as having the potential
>> to thrive.
>>
>> The document begins with a refreshingly frank assessment of the challenges
>> to manufacturing, including the lack of skills, ageing infrastructure, and
>> weak investment from the private sector.
>>
>> It admits that manufactured exports will be "faced with a long and painful
>> adjustment period" as their main destinations are Europe and the US, which
>> are both recovering very slowly from the global economy’s downturn.
>>
>> But like the government’s New Growth Path, the updated industrial policy
>> ventures into the arena of macroeconomic policy - which is the domain of the
>> Treasury.
>>
>> According to the document, success hinges on macroeconomic policies that
>> are "favourable", relative to SA’s main trading partners. These are, first,
>> a "competitive and stable exchange rate" and, second, a "competitive real
>> interest rate structure."
>>
>> There is wide agreement that SA needs a currency that is stable and
>> competitive, but not everyone understands that this is impossible for a
>> small country to engineer in global markets.
>>
>> Eyebrows will be raised at the mention of a "competitive real interest
>> rate structure". Since when has the government tried to dictate monetary
>> policy to the independent Reserve Bank?
>>
>> Business welcomes the support mooted for a wider range of industries,
>> particularly those for oil and gas, and boat-building.
>>
>> Boat repair is another opportunity given that piracy off the northern
>> coast of Africa has led to more shipping traffic around the Cape.
>>
>> A crackdown on obstacles to fair competition is another plus.
>>
>> But there is a sense that the IPAP2 is trying to do too much and should
>> focus on its priority growth areas. There are also complaints that too
>> little is being done to create an environment conducive to private business.
>> Inflexible labour rules are seen as a deterrent to hiring apprentices and
>> teaching them the skills they need to become fully fledged employees.
>>
>> At the same time, the IPAP2 does not do enough to align the skills of
>> workers to the needs of private business, executives say.
>>
>> And so far, pleas to trade unions for wage-demand restraint have fallen on
>> deaf ears — the National Union of Mineworkers said yesterday it wanted a 20%
>> wage increase this year.
>>
>> In the next two years, the department aims to finalise a national artisan
>> development programme agreed between the Department of Higher Education and
>> some of the key sector education and training authorities.
>>
>> But there is no mention of support for plans to revive technical colleges,
>> which could go a long way to alleviating the skills shortage.
>>
>> The new plan may have its flaws, but support is crucial — manufacturing
>> accounts for 15% of the economy and more than 13% of jobs.
>>
>> Business must come to the party and the government has to listen.
>>
>>
>> *From: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=139682*
>> * *
>> * *
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