Sowetan Newest.jpg SA braces for 'mother of all stay-aways' Fin24, Sowetan, Johannesburg, 7 October 2015 COSATU will embark on the "mother of all stay-aways" on Wednesday when it stages marches in all nine provinces to protest against higher taxes, e-tolls and job losses among other things burdening the working class. The demonstrations coincide with the World Day for Decent Work. COSATU said its members will march and demonstrate in city centres all over the country against issues such as the deadlock on its demand to scrap e-tolls. The union federation is also calling for a better transport system and is demanding an immediate halt to pending retrenchments. COSATU also wants Treasury to reject the proposals to increase VAT, Eskom to be held accountable for the delays in the building of the new power stations and the release of the white paper on the National Health Insurance. "Workers cannot afford a further burden of tax increase after an increase of personal income tax," said COSATU. In what it called an unemployment crisis, COSATU expressed concern about especially the large number of young people who are jobless. COSATU is also calling for a minimum wage. "This is a crisis and it poses a political instability for our democracy, needing urgent attention. As if this is not enough, workers' demands for wage increases are met with notices of retrenchments of thousands of workers, affecting their families and in particular their children's future," said COSATU. It is calling for a moratorium on retrenchments until business, government and labour can find a solution for the crisis. According to COSATU the protest of hundreds of thousands of members across the country will start from 9:00. From: http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/business/2015/10/07/sa-braces-for-mother-of-all -stay-aways -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
