NUMSA's 11th National Congress became a farcical spectacle that will go down in the history of the labour movement in South Africa as the most destructive, harmful, detrimental and damaging union activity.
What should have been an occasion to report on organisational, socio-economic, international and political work undertaken since the 10th National Congress held in 2016, the NUMSA 11th National Congress became a farcical spectacle that would go down in the history of the labour movement in South Africa as the most destructive, harmful, detrimental and damaging union activity.
ensure that all levels of our Union are democratically structured and controlled by the worker members themselves through elected worker committees; This noble strategic objective may have been severely injured if the unprecedented suspension of at least 53 Shop stewards, Office Bearers and Officials in the recent past is anything go by.Since the 2007 financial crisis, we continue to see capitalism’s over-accumulation crisis and we see tendencies towards financialisation and the marginalization of investment in the real economy.
Situationally, this is what unions either cannot comprehend or the focus of Unions are elsewhere. It would also seem that members of Unions have become spectators in this brutal assault by Capital and the State which essentially resulted in Capitalism shifting the worldwide crisis they produce and reproduces onto workers and the working class. There is hope if the radical program arising out of the SAFTU 2nd National Congress can be executed with military precision.
-Intrusion of the national office bearers into how regional office bearers sought to constitutionally run their elective regional congresses to the point of collapsing the Ekurhuleni and Mpumalanga congresses because there was an assumption that the outcomes would not support the return of the outgoing leadership
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