Home

Cosatu dismisses analysts’ suggestion that stayaway will expose inefficiencies

Reading Time: < 1 minute

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has dismissed as baseless some political analysts’ suggestion that the labour federation’s national stayaway on Thursday will only serve to expose its inefficiencies.

Cosatu says its mass action is aimed at putting pressure on the government to change its current fiscal policy.

This includes freezing public sector wages and cutting budget allocations to social services, including the conflict resolution body CCMA.

It comes ahead of Enoch Godogwana’s first Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement as Finance Minister.

Cosatu General-Secretary, Bheki Ntshalintshali says the action also coincides with the Global Day for Decent Work.

He says, “This is a global decent work day where unions all over the world. They are raising their issues as we know that we are under siege as workers about retrenchments, unprotected attack on collective bargaining. In our place, we have chosen about four things which are mainly about fighting corruption, get people arrested , getting money retrieved and the question about defending the collective bargaining system.”

Ntshalintshali speaks about the one-day socio-economic national strike:

Author

MOST READ