Workers fed up with corruption, crime, unemployment and the crushing weight of rising inflation will down tools in a national stay-away that has support among labour federation Cosatu affiliates from nurses and security guards to transport workers.
Workers fed up with corruption, crime, unemployment and the crushing weight of rising inflation will, on Thursday, down tools in a national stay-away that has support among labour federation Cosatu affiliates from nurses and security guards to transport workers.
“It is a demonstration by workers that government needs to do more to end the current levels of load-shedding, cable theft, crime and corruption, wasteful expenditure and austerity cuts crippling the state, suffocating the economy, and further plunging workers into high levels of indebtedness and misery.”
He said Cosatu demanded that the government fix dilapidated railway infrastructure and collapsed municipalities, 36 of which routinely fail to pay their employees.
“If government feels the strike is harmless and few people show up, then they will just ignore it, but if the turnout is good and has significant impact on the economy — and particularly if workers show a potential to repeat the same kind of strike in future — then they have greater likelihood of being listened to,” Ndletyana said.
But, he added, the SACP placed a premium on obtaining plush government jobs so this was a factor that would keep it aligned with the ANC. “It has almost become business as usual that things are not going to work properly, such as the issue with growth and unemployment. I know the immediate concern is we are already pressed, a strike will have a negative impact on jobs.
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