Centralised bargaining now! - CWIU NBC OUTLINES PROGRAMME OF ACTION
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: May 1992
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110172 , vital:33239
- Description: Over 150 delegates from different sectors and branches of CWIU met at Wits University on 4/ 5 April to plot the way forward within the industry. This was the unions second National Bargaining Conference. The key issue at the conference was how to fight for centralised bargaining. Keynote addresses were delivered by the Acting General Secretary, Cde Muzi Buthelezi, Cde Jay Naidoo COSATU General Secretary and CWIU President, Cde Don Gumede. Cde Gumede outlined the purposes of the conference “to assess progress and problems, to plan our path in order to provide a clear programme towards centralised bargaining as a result of proper analysis”, He urged delegates “to push employers into joint employers forums to negotiate on proper wages, job creation and an end to retrenchments”. Cde Jay Naidoo addressed the conference on the burning issues of the day. He spoke about VAT, the National Economic Negotiating Forum, trade union unity and CODESA. Cde Naidoo stressed that future economic and political policies must be formulated on the basis of daily and immediate issues facing the working people.
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- Date Issued: May 1992
NUMSA workers: Prepare for war
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: May 1992
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112697 , vital:33639
- Description: ON May 14, a dispute was declared with SEIFSA, the engineering bosses, because no progress had been made in negotiations. As you can see from the table over the page, there is hardly any progress in NUMSA’s other sectors either. Motor employers didn’t even respond to NUMSA’s demands - they just came with their own demands! On May 24 a special NUMSA Bargaining Unit Workshop will take place. This is to get reports from regions and to give NUMSA’s bargaining reps a mandate to go to the SEIFSA dispute meeting on May 26. Make sure you get a report about these meetings and make sure you and your shop steward attend all report back meetings in your region and locals. If you want to win your demands you must decide what action you will take! Comrades, we have to ask ourselves - Why is there such a deadlock between the bosses and ourselves?
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- Date Issued: May 1992