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Authors: SAMWU
Date: Mar 1998
Subjects: SAMWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113407 , vital:33768
Description: The SAMWU anti-privatisation campaign goes right to the heart of all members in their role as service providers to the community. Any privatisation of municipal services would mean that people in community not have access to basic services. It would also mean a loss of jobs through retrenchment and restructuring. This has already happened in other parts of the world. Internationally, public sector unions are fighting privatisation. For all these reasons, SAMWU calls on all members to intensify the anti-privatisation campaign! Experiences internationally have shown that privatisation results in increase in tariffs and a decline in quality services. Our communities have never received a quality service under apartheid. Now things will even be worse: under privatisation only those who can afford to pay, will get services. A major political responsibility that confronts SAMWU: we must ensure that we win the struggle against privatisation. We are confident that based on the democratic participation of ‘our gold', SAMWU workers, COSATU and the community we can be victorious.
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Authors: Trade Unionists
Date: Mar 1998
Subjects: Trade Unionists
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138657 , vital:37660
Description: To help participants develop a basic understanding of key economic concepts. To help participants to begin to apply these concepts to analyse current economic policy debates. To develop participants’ confidence and encourage them to pursue on going learning in economic analysis.
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Authors: COSATU
Date: Mar 1998
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112684 , vital:33638
Description: Members of the Press are invited to a high profile public launch of the COSATU Autumn Offensive Recruitment campaign that will be held on Monday 23 March 1998 at CNR Old Verneeniging and Jacobs Street, Alrode in Alberton - Gauteng at 12noon. In attendance will be members of the COSATU Executive Committee led by President John Gomomo, the ANC and SACP leadership. An invitation has been extended to comrades Thabo Mbeki and Charles Nqakula to speak at the launch.
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Authors: SAMWU
Date: Mar 1998
Subjects: SAMWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113292 , vital:33742
Description: Privatisation is the challenge and we need to campaign strongly against it. We seem to lose sight of the fact that the loyal servants of apartheid are still feeding our elected comrade councillors with false information. These officials hide their incompetence in managing Local Government by proposing that privatisation is the route to alleviate poor services in Local Government. During the apartheid era, Local Government in advantaged areas rendered the best service! What is stopping democracy from rendering the best services now in the disadvantaged areas?We must be vigilant and be prepared to go a little further in providing services to the disadvantaged community. The 30th July agreement at the National Bargaining Council developed guidelines which say that the preferred option to providing services is the public sector. We need as workers to use the guidelines and agreement to our advantage. We must also use SAMWU's Emergency Plan. It is important to read page 11 for more information about this Plan. We need to start implementing our resolution on Socialism to its fullest. We need to actively build the SACP which the congress identified as the main vehicle to achieve our resolution.
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Authors: SAMWU
Date: Mar 1998
Subjects: SAMWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137773 , vital:37558
Description: Greetings to all you comrades! I hope that you enjoyed your festive season and are ready to face the challenges facing us as a union. Our Congress in October 1997 came out with resolutions and we need to implement them.SAMWU will produce a booklet with all the resolutions for comrades to refer to. This booklet will be available from your branch offices soon. Unless we are paper tigers and not acting as a collective, we shall fail to achieve the aims of our last Congress. We are starting with our wage negotiations at a central level on the 19th of March and hoping to conclude by the end of April. This is the first time in our history where we hope we will be able to achieve a single minimum in the sector. With constant consultation and mandate process, we hope we will be able to achieve the above.
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