Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Solidarity Message on the occasion of Food and Allied Workers Union Fourth National Congress from the 05th-09th September 2011 Another historical milestone is about to be written with the convening of the fourth National Congress of the Food and Allied Workers Union [FAWU] Worker’s Parliament. And a necessary celebration must be accorded on the epoch of Workers organized in all farming areas in particular of our country. Since its inception in 1941 FAWU has always provided a sound platform for Worker Education and a testimony on that was/is the elevation of many respected Trade Unionists and political figures through its structures. POPCRU on the occasion of this Congress, as part of displaying candid respect for principles of Worker Control, Worker Democracy, Transparency, Acountability and of course embracing Organizational Development and Renewal, wishes FAWU well in its endeavor to build strong and vibrant Trade Union Movement in South Africa and throughout the whole world as a revolutionary duty to unite all workers of the world. A necessary struggle to be pursued beyond the Congress, is to consolidate the heightening of COSATU engines to consolidate a struggle towards a Living Wage Campaign against Capitalist inflicted scourge of poverty, unemployment and slavery wages. We must continue to fight against unpalatable conditions of farm workers,who after 17 years of our democracy, are still subjected to slavery wages as recently exposed again by the Human Rights Watch. Yet Capitalist continues to line up their pockets with more profits and profits as projeced vividly by HRW, "Ripe with Abuse" Report which says, "In 2009 the export value of wine from the Western Cape alone was about 5.91 billion rand (US$700 million).The same year the wine industry contributed an estimated 26,223 million rand (US$3,105 million) to South Africa’s gross domestic product, with over half of that sum remaining in the Western Cape". And we call on the Department of Labour to intensify investigations of these exposee which undermines the gains of a democratic system which is highly regarded in the global village. POPCRU joins all COSATU Affiliates and other Progressive Forces to adjure the Working Class to unite for a course of reversing the narrow apartheid spatial development’s fault lines still prevalent in our communities. Arise ye toilers of the earth….for another world is possible! Amandla! Issued by: Mampane Norman National Spokesperson Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Tel: 0112424600/4615 Cell: 0720737949 Email: [email protected] www.popcru.org.za 01 Marie Road Auckland Park 2006
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