The party has been garnering support for its planned protest against load-shedding and other service delivery issues set for March 20.
The unions’ support was not without conditions. Vavi said the EFF’s demands would also have to highlight working-class challenges and include socioeconomic challenges.
“Saftu’s principal demands include the creation of decent jobs by rebuilding our manufacturing base through re-industrialisation, addressing the escalating cost of living by through not only restructuring the economy but the introduction of the universal basic income grant, increasing the minimum wage to a living wage, combating crime and gender-based violence and ending load-shedding,” he said.
Don’t worry UDM will be in court on the same day and EFF will be busy with their shutdown programme . The common denominator between the two events is ANC govt & Eskom’s failure to switch on the lights for the citizens of our country. Difference is the application of tactics .“Saftu, which boasts a membership of over 700,000, led by 20 affiliate unions, is among the strongest federations organised labour in SA.
In January, TimesLIVE reported the DA launched an urgent case to interdict the recent decision by the regulator to hike the electricity tariff, while other parties, NGOs and Numsa sent a letter of demand for load-shedding to be stopped.
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