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SADTU Update, February 2016 Speaker's Notes and Booklet for the 2016 Education Workers' Forums Full Contents (present section in bold) Introduction Pseudo Movements Defending Collective Bargaining The Privatisation of Education Migration of TVET Lectures in terms of the Public Service Act Government Employees' Medical Scheme (GEMS) Government Employee Housing Scheme (GEHS) 2016 Retirement and Tax Reforms Record of NEC Decisions on MTT recommendations Conclusion Introduction We greet you, the members of the biggest teachers and education workers union in our country. We repeat this fact, saying we represent two thirds of teachers in our country and we are not being rude, unreasonable or arrogant when we expect to be consulted on anything about education in our country. This fact is supported by the National Education Policy Act when it cite two institutions that must be consulted before policies and laws are promulgated, those being CEM and the ELRC. We are approaching our 26th anniversary, having grown from a membership of 30 000 members to 260 000. One of the strongest affiliates of COSATU, an ally of both the ANC and SACP and an important affiliate of education international. Our General Secretary serves in the all powerful executive board representing more than 400 unions in the world with a total membership of 30, 000, 000 teachers and education all over the world. Our union, your union is bigger and stronger than ever before. We remain a beacon of hope for all teachers in the country, and admired by many unions in the continent. We want to thank you for remaining loyal and discipline members of our union. Thanks for your hard work at schools, this you do under extremely difficult conditions. You do this because of the love for our children, because of the love you have for our country. Our 2030 vision speaks about us creating a learning nation as Pillar 1, we are part of the Quality Learning Teaching Campaign, and we are champions of our revolutionary tasks of being at work, on time teaching every day. We continue encouraging our members to take these tasks serious. This we should understand as our contribution to the National Democratic Revolution, the shortest route towards Socialism. It is our revolutionary task to stop sexual relations with learners and stop meting corporal punishment. Our assignment remains the development of a human resource as our real contribution to building a National Democratic State. Any member or leader of SADTU not adhering to the above revolutionary task will delay and or abort our historical mission of the national democratic revolution and our final goal of attaining Socialism. Last year, 2015 saw us fighting many battles, scoring some victories, key amongst being the demolishing of the annual national assessment. We want to thank you for your resilience even at times of high forms of confusion, blackmail and intermediation. You are aware that nothing can withstand and defeat workers when they are united. It is a fact that ANA will never be written again in our country , we are reviewing and will produced a remodeled tool that will serve to diagnose the state of health of the education system but also assist with targeted interventions. Next part: Pseudo Movements -- -- 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.
