15 April 2016 SAMWU Will Remain an Affiliate of COSATU The South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU) has noted talks of the formation of a new federation with union's name being thrown around as those who will be joining this ill-conceived formation. We will never be part of an organisation which has been formed out of bitterness and anger. Anybody who thinks that they will take SAMWU to this grouping is only lying to themselves. SAMWU has congress resolutions which have confirmed, affirmed and reaffirmed our affiliation to COSATU. Ours is a historical relationship with COSATU politically and ideologically. Unions who merged to form SAMWU were founding members of COSATU and as such we have a responsibility to ensure the continued survival and growth of COSATU. It would only take a properly constituted National Congress to resolve otherwise on our affiliation to COSATU. The union and its members are unambiguous on the affiliation and as such talks of the contrary is mischievous and should be condemned as it seeks so confuse members who resolved on this issue. May Day We urge our members to fully participate in the upcoming May Day celebrations hosted by COSATU. To show our support for May Day, SAMWU National Office Bearers have been deployed by COSATU as speakers in various venues for that day. We further want to dispel notions that the union is in a crisis, SAMWU remains intact with properly constituted leadership as elected by the 11th National Congress. Although these are challenging times, we will come out of this victorious. We further reaffirm our commitment to servicing our members as they remain the pillar of this union. Lastly, we distance ourselves from this grouping and further urge those responsible to desist from using our name for their own political gains. SAMWU remains an affiliate in good standing of COSATU. Issued by SAMWU Head Office Simon Mathe General Secretary 084 368 9324 -- -- 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.
