COSATU no letters, white background.jpg COSATU Press Statement, 4 February 2016 Special CEC statement Item: Basic Education Ministerial Task Team Report The Congress of South African Trade Unions convened a one day Special Central Executive Committee meeting yesterday... The federation also discussed and condemned the leaked and sometimes political findings of the Basic Education Ministerial Task team investigating the selling of posts in schools. Firstly, the CEC condemned the leaking of this report and concluded that it is a deliberate attempt meant to smear, malign and alienate our affiliate SADTU in public. Some of the leaked information coming out of this report is very troubling for the federation. The report goes on to even cite the ANC, SADTU and the SACP, as the corrupt parties colluding to corrupt the education system. It recommends the creation of staff associations to replace SADTU from organising principals, HOD's and other office workers. It also recommends the isolation and exclusion of School Governing Bodies from the school recruitment processes. This goes against the ANC's theme of advancing the People's Power. We call on the Minister to refrain from publicly using SADTU as a scapegoat and she must also stop the leaking of this report. The parties being smeared by these leaks were not even given an opportunity to respond and defend themselves. We shall escalate these issues to our upcoming CEC at the end of the month. COSATU is clear that it will not stand idly while a campaign is emerging and underway to undermine the federations and its affiliates through laws and leaks. The message is clear in that workers are ready to fight for their rights and will not bow down to either state or business sponsored offensive. Issued by COSATU Contact: Sizwe Pamla, National Spokesperson, 060 975 6794 -- -- 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.
