Re: [YCLSA Discussion] 'New union a cash cow for leaders' - The Star

'City Bokaba' via YCLSA Discussion Forum Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:46:26 -0800

Ok, but why the motive of forming Metalworkers union is not questioned? Or is 
it the project to replace Numsa in the federation? Regards

Mokibe C Bokaba 
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 Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] 'New union a cash cow for leaders' - The Star

‘New union a 
cash cow for leaders’    Amy Musgrave, The Star, Johannesburg, 9 December 2014  
COSATU president S’dumo Dlamini went for the jugular on Monday, claiming a new 
public sector union has been formed as a moneymaker for its leaders.  Dlamini, 
who was speaking at a meeting of the country’s largest public sector union, the 
National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), questioned why it 
was easy for leaders “who have stolen workers’ money” to form new unions.  
While Dlamini did not mention names, he was referring to Thobile Ntola, the 
former SA Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) president, who is the national 
convener for the newly formed SA Public Service Union.  “This person was found 
guilty for having stolen workers’ money but still has the guts to go out with a 
straight face to mobilise workers with an intention to form a union,” Dlamini 
told NEHAWU’s national executive committee meeting in Boksburg.  “We should 
expose that the underlying intention is not only to form a union - wrong as 
that may be - but to establish another cash cow as a way of maintaining a 
lavish lifestyle, which for a long time has been done through workers’ money.”  
Ntola was expelled from SADTU after being accused of using his position for 
personal financial gain, including being paid an allowance by a service 
provider to the union.  He continues to maintain his innocence.  Corruption is 
widespread in unions in COSATU, with many leaders being accused by their 
opponents of using their positions to line their pockets. They include the SA 
Municipal Workers Union, the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, and the 
Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union.  COSATU’s 
leadership has not condemned these leaders, at least not in public.  Dlamini 
implied that Ntola was being used as part of a strategy to weaken COSATU, which 
also included drying up the federation’s resources through legal action.  The 
National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA), which was expelled from COSATU, 
and its allies are planning many court cases against the federation. They 
include applications to get NUMSA reinstated and forcing COSATU to hold a 
special national congress, which could result in the election of new leaders.  
“The other line of attack… is to have COSATU preoccupied with court cases as a 
way of stretching its resources and to have it appear paralysed. It will not 
work,” Dlamini said.  The special congress has been tentatively set down by 
Dlamini from July 13 to 16. But eight of COSATU’s 18 affiliates and NUMSA want 
it to take place by March at the latest.  Dlamini suggested that NUMSA should 
use its money for other purposes.  “Should this money not be used for something 
which will benefit workers? Or should NUMSA’s leadership not use this money for 
convening its special national congress to review its 2013 special national 
congress resolutions which are opposition to COSATU policy?” he asked.  NUMSA 
was expelled for a number of reasons, the most serious being that it was 
allegedly “poaching” members from other unions.  Dlamini reiterated that NUMSA 
had been in the wrong, and said any political process which could result in its 
return would not see COSATU giving up on its founding principles, including one 
union for one industry.  The Star  From: 
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/new-union-a-cash-cow-for-leaders-1.1792671#.VIa0NDGUeD8

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