Yes Comrades, I am also worried by the tone of COSATU Leadership. Alliance Summit including ANC said Tripartite Alliance remains strategic centre but it has always been COSATU that convenes Shopsteward Council to propel harden attitude against government.
On aspect of Labour Brokers, I don't think there are issues there but its been used as scapegoat to confront ANC government on aspects of ANC internal operations. During my active participation as a shopsteward in all COSATU Shopsteward Council I have said we need Workers Party that would account to its constituencies and I was hauled and called to order be CEC leadership. Today all what is happening COSATU in their meeting negates ANC and distorts the objective of the ruling party. Imagine if they say clinics and schools would be closed??? And what I wish to caution COSATU Leadership is that workers at point are not loyal to their federation and it would be realized during all strikes. I pause! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:22:42 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] A strike against "labour brokers"? Or a strike against the ANC? Ok, noted thanks. Do u believe he has any personal ambitions of leading the movement, because that's how I decode these utterances? Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 07:17:25 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] A strike against "labour brokers"? Or a strike against the ANC? Yes thabiso he is member!being a member is not an isolated reality he is also the GS of cosatu which is an independent alliance partner! Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:10:39 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] A strike against "labour brokers"? Or a strike against the ANC? Vavi is a ANC member correct I presume? Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Domza VC <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:30:35 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] A strike against "labour brokers"? Or a strike against the ANC? The Times *Vavi warns ANC* *Sipho Masondo, The Times, Johannesburg, 8 February 2012* Cosatu boss Zwelinzima Vavi yesterday slammed the ANC, saying it could no longer depend on struggle heroes to win its elections. In a hard-hitting speech only two days before President Jacob Zuma gives his state of the nation address, Vavi said the honeymoon was over. Speaking at a Cosatu Gauteng shop stewards' council meeting in Soweto, Vavi told the ANC-led government to focus on delivering on its five priority areas: decent jobs, quality education, affordable healthcare, fighting crime and corruption, and rural development. "We have gone to the people and promised them five priorities. "In 2014 we can't go to them waving flags and say: 'Remember Chris Hani, Albert Luthuli and Joe Slovo.' "They will say, 'What else? ... Go away, you are liars. Don't tell us about Luthuli and Mandela, tell us about yourself. Why should we support you?'" Vavi said that in 2014 voters would no longer be patient but would want results. He said: "2014 will not be an ordinary election. We will be celebrating 20 years of democracy." Before Zimbabwe was hit by its political crisis, said Vavi, the country had done better than South Africa because it had improved education and health services. But South Africa was going the other way, said Vavi, adding that Zimbabwe was hurt by allowing Mugabe to be president for more than 20 years. He criticised the ANC for its "self-destructing" tendencies. "The alliance is self-destructing, I've never seen this rate of self-destructing. "We are on the fast lane to self-destruction. Let's fix our house before it collapses on our heads." Vavi blamed those who "think they have divine authority to eat on behalf of the masses. The tendency of tenderpreneurs should be exposed and isolated". Reiterating his call for a March 7 nationwide strike, Vavi said his union federation and all its affiliates would voice their frustration at the government's refusal to ban labour brokers. "We will strike to demand the banning of labour brokers. If we don't fight this battle now, in no time all of us will be employed by labour brokers." Instead of banning labour brokers, Vavi said, the government had proposed: Forbidding labour brokers from employing people for more than six months; After six months, the employee shall be deemed to be permanently employed; Equal pay for all employees doing the same job, whether permanently employed or assigned by a under labour broker; and Labour brokers and employers will be jointly cited in court or in arbitration. Cosatu Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile, said: "We must make sure that, on March 7, there are no clinics operating. Hospitals must come to a standstill. We must make sure that there isn't a single mayor who is made tea by his worker." Cosatu's main affiliates include the National Union of Mineworkers, SA Municipal Workers' Union, National Union of Metalworkers of SA and the SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union. *From: http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2012/02/08/vavi-warns-anc* ** ** * *** -- 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. 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