The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) was formed in 1987 and is the biggest trade union of metalworkers in South Africa.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) was formed in 1987 and is the biggest trade union of metalworkers in South Africa with more than 338,000 members. NUMSA’s Principles
• Non-racialism – to be strong we need to organise all workers. The employers used apartheid to divide workers. Numsa tries to break down the division between white and black workers and build unity.
• Democr

acy and worker control – in every structure we have a majority of workers to make sure that workers make the decisions and not officials; members elect their representatives, called shopstewards.
• Unity of metalworkers and all workers in South Africa and internationally – we need one union in the metal industry in South Africa so we can act as one against employers locally and internationally and to put united pressure on government. Numsa’s long term vision is of a united South Africa where the minority will no longer exploit and oppress the majority. For many, this is the socialism that we are still striving for. An organised and united working class must make sure we achieve this goal. All this for just 1% of your basic wage! But Numsa can only be as strong as its members. Workers divided are weak. Metalworkers unite – join Numsa now!

22/07/2017

22 July 2017
Press Release
NUMSA calls on the SAPS to ensure that 10111 workers are fairly remunerated
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) calls on the South African Police Service management to ensure that the 10111 workers are remunerated fairly. At least 5000 call center workers went on strike this week because the S-A-P-S violates the principle of equal pay for work of equal value.
Workers at the 10111 call center do not earn the same as other workers in government institutions who do the same kind of work. NUMSA condemns this kind of unfair labour practice. This is precisely the kind of principle that employers in the Engineering sector wish to impose on our members, which is why we are now on the verge of a nationwide strike.
This government cannot claim to be promoting ‘radical economic transformation’ when state institutions are guilty of exploiting workers in the same way that greedy capitalists exploit workers everyday. Police management are putting the lives of millions of South Africans at risk by exploiting SAPU members, and forcing them to strike.
The strike has now been temporarily suspended to allow for mediation to take place through the CCMA. We call on the SAPS to negotiate in good faith and ensure that they resolve the crisis as soon as possible, for the sake of the public who rely on this very important service.
The struggle continues!
Issued by
Phakamile Hlubi
NUMSA Acting spokesperson
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18/07/2017

Engineering Press Statement
STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF ENGINEERING/METALS SECTOR WAGE NEGOTIATIONS AND DEMANDS OF WORKERS
“The struggle for national democracy is also an expression of the class contradiction between the black and democratic forces on the one hand, and the monopoly capitalists on the other. The stranglehold of a small number of white monopoly capitalists over the great bulk of our country`s wealth and resources is based on colonial dispossession and promotes racial oppression. This concentration of wealth and power perpetuates the super-exploitation of millions of black workers. It perpetuates the separate plight of millions of the landless rural poor. And it blocks the advance of black business and other sectors of the oppressed. This reality, therefore, forms the basis of the antimonopoly content of the national democratic programme.”

(The Path to Power, SACP, 1989)
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) which represents over 140 000 super-exploited workers in the most strategic layer of the economy, the Metal and Engineering sector is on the verge of a full-blown strike in the sector.
Background
The wage negotiations were held against a backdrop of a soaring crisis at the main center of global capitalism and imperialism – the United States (US) and Europe, where there is massive shrinking in the manufacturing sector, and a shift into insecure services, especially finance, retail, security and “knowledge production” tertiary sectors.
In our own South African context, the negotiations took place amidst the spread of corruption by politicians and state capture, whilst our people, especially the working class and the poor, are confronted with the crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequality. As a result of the ANC’s insistence on implementing neo-liberal economic policies, we are also experiencing the impact of having our credit rating downgraded to junk status and the negative impact this has had on the growth outlook of the economy.
NUMSA is dismayed by the level of serious political stagnation between the two capitalist factions. One led by Cyril Ramaphosa, defending White Monopoly Capital, with SACP and COSATU on one side, and Zuma and the Gupta’s on the other. They are busy with a flimsy confused debate about the obvious nature and character of South African capitalism, which is owned and controlled by white monopoly capital. Instead of addressing the real issue of how to restructure and turn around the South African economy. To address the current national crisis of an economy that has been downgraded to junk status, and that is technically in a recession.
NUMSA calls for the immediate following measures:
1. If great problems deliver great solutions, the South African government needs to move swiftly and restructure the South African economy, nationalize its minerals and all commanding heights of the economy and place them under worker control.
2. Ensure that our minerals are beneficiated, diversified and champion a job led industrial strategy.
3. The current economic crisis dictates that government should increase tariffs to protect our manufacturing capacity and designate all products that we have capacity to produce and manufacture locally and make it compulsory that all government departments and private sector procure locally. And that all economically depressed sectors and companies should be subsidized in the form of incentives.
4. To uproot corruption and cronyism in the State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) the South African government should reconstitute all the boards of SOE’s and the reconstitution should be made up of labour, business and government and civil society.
5. Whilst NUMSA acknowledges the current Public Protector recommendation about broadening the mandate of the SA Reserve Bank is not necessarily her competency, we remain firm that the Reserve Bank should have been nationalized long time ago and that its failed hot pursuit of inflation targeting should have been stopped. Instead, the Reserve Bank should target jobs and its mandate can’t just be about protecting the value of white wealth which remains completely untransformed. It should also cut high interest rates that are militating against manufacturing and industrialization.
6. The South African government including finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, must stop being a prisoners of the World Economic Forum (WEF); the World Bank and the IMF, fake ratings agencies and fully implement the Freedom Charter. They must address the land question, and stop playing with concepts and get serious about radical economic transformation. They need to take firm measures to affirm the Black and African majority who are economically marginalized and dispossessed in the economy. It is in this context that NUMSA rejects Gigaba’s attempt to appease ratings agencies by championing a once hidden and now open privatization of our SOE’s under the disguise of non-core assets. NUMSA calls on the South African public that we should reject privatization in whatever form it has been disguised.

7. NUMSA has noted the national treasury statements since their cash injection into SAA that there is a subtle agenda to prepare the public for privitisation of SAA. This takes place against the backdrop of serious allegations that have been made by our sister union, SA Cabin Crew Association involving serious allegation of corruption involving tenders and we want to be on record representing our members at SAA that we reject any form of privatization of this very important national asset. And we shall work with other unions to get to the bottom of the problems at SAA, that include exploring whether this institution should not be placed under business rescue. We have also lodged a dispute with SAA at the CCMA on this and other issues. We are demanding that the entire SAA board be suspended with immediate effect pending an independent investigation into the SOE.

8. NUMSA also wants to note that fact that today we have begun wage talks in the mining sector for the first time in our history. This is as a result of our resolution in the historic conference of 2013 to organize in other sectors of the economy. The Chamber of Mines officially opens wage talks today at their headquarters in Johannesburg. NUMSA has a significant representation at Glencore Coal South Africa with a representation of 48% of the workforce.
These are just some of the demands put on the table by our members:
▪ 20% wage increase across the board
▪ A housing subsidy of R80 000
▪ An increase of 20% in all allowances
Crisis in Engineering
For the last 23 years the ANC has failed the people by promoting disastrous neo-liberal economic policies like the NDP and GEAR at the back of a sellout negotiated settlement and the bourgeois constitution overall, the 20 years of democracy has been a disastrous to the working class of our country. It has resulted in the highest poverty and unemployment levels in the world; it has also resulted in the creation of the most unequal society, where three white men own the entire wealth of the country.
Despite the slowdown in the global economy, capital locally and globally continues to make huge profits by increasing the suffering of the working class. It does so by increasing production and reducing wages in order to maximize profits for shareholders.
White monopoly capital in South Africa has benefitted immensely through the concentration and centralization of South Africa’s wealth and the economy. They have been driving an investment strike and are completely refusing to pay a living wage. In fact, there has been a deliberate effort by conservative employers whose old boerdebond, baaskap attitude, wants to take Black and African workers back to the days of racist, slavery, and super exploitation conditions.
This group of conservatives led by Gerhard Papenfus of NEASA get their impetus from the Free Market Foundation; the right wing NDP; Cyril Ramaphosa and his stupid national minimum wage of R20 per hour/R3500 per month. This grouping has been concealing its agenda of being union bashers, and it maintains and champions a racist stance that Black and African workers should be paid slavery wages. That is why they have approached this round of negotiations with a demand that new young workers in the industry be paid half of the minimum rate. This the easiest way of destroying the trade union movement. When you co-opt the present generation of workers to betray their legacy of hard won gains and struggle, and guarantee no future for the next generation of workers. And obviously as NUMSA we reject this with the contempt it deserves.
Our engagement with the employer bodies, particularly Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA), National Employers Association of South Africa (NEASA); PCASA, SAEFA, CEO and Boarder Industry Association (BIA) are hell-bent on down varying the current conditions of employment and perpetuating the colonial apartheid wage income disparities.
This is despite our members and their families struggling to cope with the meagre earnings which they have been forced to endure. The majority of our members earn the lowest at R40 per hour. Over 50% of workers’ disposable income is spent on the cost of transport because of the persisting legacy of apartheid social engineering, and its settlement patterns, which has ensured that Africans in particular and Blacks in general, live far from workplaces.

NUMSA demands:
1. We demand 15% wage increase across the board based on the actual rate which a worker is earning, not on the minimum. (A 15% wage increase would translate into a R6 per hour increase for the lowest paid member.)
2. We want a 2 year agreement and in that period we want all outstanding issues to be finalized.
3. We want the current agreement to be extended, (except in relation to wages).
4. We demand that the MEIBC Main Collective Agreement be extended to all parties and non-parties. Furthermore, we demand that employers agree to the MEIBC Main Collective Agreement being extended to all employers and employees falling within the jurisdiction of the MEIBC Bargaining Council and, that it be made legally binding on all employers who are not members of an employer organization. It must also be made binding on scheduled employees who are not members of one of the trade unions cited as signatories to the Settlement Agreement.
5. We demand that the agreement must be to be backdated, effective 01 July 2017
Employers demands:
▪ The employers have tabled an empty offer of 5.3% on actuals, and 5.5% on minimums. Meaning on the very same grade they are robbing one worker to pay another worker. For example, a worker on Grade H (R40) will get 5.5% increase on the minimum rate of pay. But the worker who is earning R45 will get R5.3% based on the actuals, but they are in the very same grade.
▪ For the second and third year of the agreement, they are offering wage increase of 4% if the CPI is less than 4%, otherwise they are offering a maximum of 8% if the CPI is higher than 8%.
▪ Employers want to implement a minimum rate of R20 per hour for new entrants to the sector, when the minimum is R40
▪ They want to introduce area rates where workers in outlying areas earn 10% less than workers in urban areas, ie areas outside of KZN; Cape Town and Gauteng are considered urban areas.
▪ They want to reduce the current 4 week leave entitlement for workers who have worked for a company for four years or more, to three weeks.
▪ They want to pay out bonuses based on the actual shifts worked. Workers who do not work all their shifts due to authorized leave, eg. Sick or maternity leave will forfeit their bonus.
We deadlocked with employers on the 15th of June because the proposal they put on the table would result in a down variation in the working conditions of our members. Simply put employers put proposals on the table which would worsen the living and working conditions of our members.
We declared a dispute purely because we strongly believe that we have exhausted all possible avenues for employers to concede to our demands, as mandated by our members. After four dispute meetings we still could not agree. It is quite evident that the employers are imposing a strike onto us. Employers have forced us into this undesirable position because of the absurd offer which they have placed on the table. As NUMSA, the strike was never on our agenda, purely because our core demands are affordable.
The major point of disagreement is the fact that employers want to slash the minimum entry rate by half by imposing a poverty wage of R20 per hour onto our members, which is half the minimum rate of the Engineering sector! Our members fought hard to increase the minimum rate to where it is. All along employers have claimed that Africans are not educated or skilled enough to justify a higher income. Now that young workers are educated, they want to exploit the next generation of workers with poverty wages of R20 per hour.
NUMSA calls on our members both old and young in the industry to unite and be ready to declare a sustained war to defend their gains, to improve their wages and to secure the future of the next generation of workers.
Employers are emboldened by the ANC’s plans to impose a National Minimum Wage (NMW) of R20 per hour next year. This is precisely why NUMSA rejected the National Minimum Wage. We knew it would cause chaos in the Engineering sector by introducing and legalizing slave wages. If we agree to this ridiculous proposal placed on the table by employers, it will mean we must agree to violate the principle of ‘equal pay, for work of equal value, where some workers earn more for doing the same work. Furthermore, it will result in older workers being retrenched and being replaced with a cheaper labour force.
Way forward
NUMSA has resolved to embark on a rolling mobilization of our members to make them ready for any eventuality and as we mobilize our members, we will dedicate time to engage employers further demanding that they must move from the current position, and make an offer that can settle this round of negotiations. Once we have satisfied that we have done everything we might be left with no option but to issue the 48 hour notice for a legal protected strike.
In the event the strike takes place, the following key sectors will be heavily affected, for example, foundries, electronics and telecommunications, plastic and fabrication industries. Machinery and equipment, automotive components sector, electrical engineering, basic metals, heavy and light engineering, gate and fence, and construction engineering companies will all be affected.
The major companies which will be affected include Auto Industrial, Bell Equipment, CBI, Union Carriage and Wagon, Dorbyl, Marley Pipe System and Dana Spicer Axle amongst others. Some of these companies supply critical parts to the auto industry and could have a disastrous impact on their already strained supply obligations. If the strike commences, ongoing work at Medupi, Kusile and Ingqurha will be delayed. Employers in the metals and engineering industry will have to take full responsibility for the repercussions that this strike will have on the economy as a result of their intransigence.
We are calling on every concerned stakeholder to knock sense to the intransigent group of employers that have been frustrating the process of negotiations, or else we will shut down the entire economy on a scale which this country has never seen before. Obviously with the current state of the economy, the consequences of such a contemplated action will deepen the economic crisis. The ball is in the employers court.
Aluta continua!
The Struggle continues!
Issued by
Irvin Jim
NUMSA General Secretary

15/07/2017

15 July, 2017
Press Release
NUMSA secures court victory for contract workers!
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has secured a significant victory at the Labour Appeals Court for contract workers. We went to the LAC to seek clarity on the rights of contract workers, after the three month period as referred to in the LRA s198A(3)(b) kicks in.
This week the Labour Appeal Court handed down a decision to reinforce the rights of temporary workers who are contracted by Temporary Employment Services (TES).
The case involved a company called Assign Services, a labour broking company which was supplying contract staff to Krost Shelving and Racking. Assign believed that after the period of three months lapsed, that contract workers would be the responsibility of both Krost and Assign.
As NUMSA we contended that that the placed workers should be deemed as full time employees of Krost, as they had been contracted to work there in excess of three months. In terms of the law, Krost was the sole employer.
However Assign Service the labour broking company disagreed. They believed that the workers were the responsibility of Assign and Krost as ‘dual employers’, and that the temporary contract remained intact.
Initially the CCMA found that Krost must assume full responsibility as the sole employer. However, Assign was unhappy with that outcome and applied to the Labour Court to review the decision. The Labour Court overturned the decision of the Commissioner.
NUMSA took the case to the Labour Appeals court which upheld the decision of the CCMA that indeed, contract workers automatically become full time employees of the main employer after the three month period has lapsed. As NUMSA we are pleased that the court has reinforced the principle that that the purpose of temporary employment is short-term. If it extends beyond three months then a workers automatically becomes a permanent employee of the Employer.
The case also confirmed that once permanent, contract workers must be treated the same as permanent employees with the same rights and benefits.
This is a victory for contract and temporary workers everywhere! It confirms that labour brokers may not exploit workers on contract for indefinite periods of time. We have seen this example in Transnet in Richards bay where 50 workers had their contracts terminated in order to circumvent the application of this law. They worked in excess of three months and yet Transnet has refused to grant them permanent status. NUMSA will now pursue their plight even more aggressively and demand justice for our members.
NUMSA has proven once again that we are a militant trade union which is willing to go all the way in fighting for the rights of our members. Whilst other trade unions are preoccupied with ANC factional battles, NUMSA is fighting for workers rights. By securing this victory we have strengthened the rights of temporary workers everywhere in South Africa.
Forward with Socialism, forward!
Aluta continua!
The struggle continues!
Issued by
Irvin Jim
NUMSA General Secretary

14/07/2017

NUMSA welcomes SAFTU’s support in the upcoming Engineering strike

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) welcomes the support of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) in the looming Engineering strike. SAFTU has called on all 24 unions which represent over seven hundred thousand workers in the country to back NUMSA in the upcoming strike in Engineering.



Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of SAFTU is correct when he says that “the strike in Engineering is a life and death struggle for all workers in South Africa. The employers in other sectors are looking to see if the Engineering sector succeeds in implementing the slave wage of R20 per hour, so that they too, can implement poverty wages”.



NUMSA is gearing up for the mother of all strikes in Engineering. Employers have waged an all out war on all workers in South Africa and we have to fight back. The racist s*xist employers in Engineering have the backing and the support of the ANC government, and the Deputy President of the country, Cyril Ramaphosa, is the one leading the charge.

It is ironic that Ramaphosa who built his career as a trade unionist, has re-invented himself as a union basher. The deputy President who founded the once mighty National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), is responsible for driving and implementing the National Minimum Wage of R20 per hour. It is because of this decision that bosses in the Engineering sector are demanding that we accept a proposal that new employees in the sector should be paid half of the minimum rate. So whilst other workers are earning R40 or more, Employers want to pay new workers slave wages!



Yellow bellied trade union federations like COSATU are also responsible for this situation. They approved the poverty minimum wage, which NUMSA was vociferously opposed to. COSATU is truly a shell of its former self. Besides being a mere labour desk for the governing party, they only care about the ANC’s factional battles, instead of fighting this attack on the working class. Currently they are too busy mobilizing workers to support Ramaphosa, The Union Basher, as a candidate for president!



We have not yet announced a decision to go on strike as we are in the process of mobilizing our members. Once we have received the strike certificate it will be easier to map a way forward and we will also be able to say when the strike will take place. The strike will allow all workers in Engineering sector to down tools, whether they are NUMSA members or not.

NUMSA is calling on all workers in South Africa to support this strike. We are fighting for a living wage for our members and their families. Workers in South Africa support up to seven extended family members on their wages. If the Engineering employers succeed in implementing this poverty wage, then all workers in all sectors will be affected. Those workers who are earning more and think that the NMW will not affect them, will eventually experience a cut in wages and their benefits will shrink even more.

We invite members of the media to attend a press conference next week to hear more details about the upcoming Engineering strike.

DATE : Tuesday, 18th July 2017

TIME : 10:00

VENUE : NUMSA Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre (VMCC), 155 Lilian Ngoyi street, corner Gerard Sekoto street Newtown

Aluta continua!

The struggle continues!

Issued by

Phakamile Hlubi

NUMSA Acting Spokesperson

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Ford Hlananganani and Numsa Northern Cape region membership card distribution
11/07/2017

Ford Hlananganani and Numsa Northern Cape region membership card distribution

AtAtlantis Foundries picketing on Thursday 5 July 2017
07/07/2017

AtAtlantis Foundries picketing on Thursday 5 July 2017

07/07/2017

NUMSA MEMORANDUM DATED 07 JULY, 2017

NUMSA MEMORANDUM TO TRANSNET

Our members are demanding urgent intervention on the following:


1. We demand that heads must roll in the S*x for jobs scandal – Some Transnet officials are guilty of violating female workers and forcing them to be exploited. They demand s*x in exchange for jobs. In an environment when women are being abused and murdered, such activities are unacceptable in the workplace! These cases have been reported and are being handled by the Bargaining council, which is run by Transnet, but Transnet is dragging its feet in resolving them. We demand a speedy resolution to these cases and for punitive measures to be taken against those who are guilty of such heinous crimes. Some of our members also reported that men were also being exploited as they were forced to pay up to R10 000 in order to secure employment.


2. We demand equality in the workplace and that that principle of “Equal pay for equal work” must apply. Contractors and permanent staff are doing the same work for the same amount of hours, but the permanent staff earn more than the contractors. Workers who are permanent get transported home; they receive a discount at the canteen for food; they have access to the bathrooms so they can wash themselves after shifts, but contract workers are denied all of these basic benefits. Contractors often change their work clothes out in the open without the dignity of a bathroom. Transnet treats contractors like animals.

3. We demand a ban on labour brokers. Some workers have been working for Transnet for 20 years as contractors. They are hired by labour brokers who do not pay any benefits. Contractors work without the benefit of medical aid; provident fund etc. We demand that Transnet implement the labour law which stipulates that workers who work for more than 3 months be made permanent.

4. We demand a safe working environment for all employees. Contract workers at Transnet are denied the use of safety equipment like dust masks and respirators. This exposes them to serious sicknesses like TB and Emphysema. Workers have raised these issues in the past, even with the department of Labour, but they have been ignored. The CEO of Transnet Siyabonga Gama raised this issue in July last year, but still, nothing has been done!

5. We demand an independent inquiry into the incident of the 9th of May. Workers were peacefully picketing against the termination of their contracts, when they were shot at by the police. In response to this brutality. In terms of the constitution workers have the right to picket and they do not require permission to do so. The SAPS shot at unarmed workers, just like they did in Marikana and our members defended themselves by using the payloaders to stop them, but the attack from the police continued. NUMSA will be opening a case with the IPID for them to investigate this issue.

6. We demand an independent investigation into corruption at Transnet. We note the investigation by Werksmans into whether the Gupta’s benefited from Transnet, but we don’t think that’s good enough. We don’t trust Transnet to reveal the true extent of corruption. Therefore, we will lodge a formal complaint with the Public Protector for her to investigate whether any senior managers at Transnet or the board are beneficiaries of tenders.

7. We demand a finalization of this issue regarding the termination of the employees “Skakane and 49 others” who were dismissed in 2016. These workers were dismissed as an attempt by Transnet to circumvent the law. Instead of hiring them permanently at the end of their fixed term contract, as stipulated by the law, Transnet dismissed them. This matter is being handled by the Transnet Bargaining council and it is deliberately dragging its feet in reinstating our members. We demand that this issue be resolved immediately and for punitive action to be meted out against the guilty parties.

Transnet has seven days to respond to our demands. We will continue to picket everyday until we get meaningful engagement with Transnet. We await your urgent response in this matter.

Kind regards
Charles Mohlala
NUMSA Local Secretary Richards Bay
076 4300142





President – Andrew Chirwa; 1st Deputy President – Basil Cele; 2nd Deputy President – Ruth Ntlokotse;
National Treasurer – Mphumzi Maqungo; General Secretary – Irvin Jim;
Deputy General Secretary – Karl Cloete

Visuals and footage from the march to Transnet in Richardsbay
07/07/2017

Visuals and footage from the march to Transnet in Richardsbay

07/07/2017

A strike is looming in the Engineering sector

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) participated in wage negotiation dispute meetings with employers in the Engineering sector. The purpose of the meetings was to resolve the dispute between us and the employer. Unfortunately those talks failed and we have rejected the latest offer from employers.

Our demands remain the same:

§ We want a 15% in wage increase across the board based on the actual rate that a worker is earning, and not on the minimum rate.

§ Backdate increase from the 01st July 2017

§ We demand a two year agreement.

§ We demand the extension of the agreement to non-parties; this includes non-parties and Employer associations like NEASA and PCASA who fall under the MEIBC.

Employers demands:

§ Because of the ANC and its National Minimum Wage policy, Employers want to implement a minimum rate of R20 per hour for new entrants to the sector, when the minimum is R40

§ Employers want to increase wages in terms of the minimum rate instead of what the worker is actually earning

§ Employers want us to recognize the Plastics Negotiating Forum as a chamber of the MEIBC they want it to be excluded from the main agreement.

NUMSA rejects this offer with the contempt it deserves! This agreement will make working conditions worse. We warned the ANC that the National Minimum Wage they had proposed would have disastrous consequences, but they arrogantly ignored us. Now their proposal is causing chaos in the Engineering sector by ensuring that workers who fought to earn more, now risk being downgraded to this pathetic poverty wage of R20 per hour. At the end of the day the ANC will always fight to protect big business and White monopoly capital at the expense of workers and their families!

Employers are lying when they say that those who earn more will not get downgraded. We know that in reality, there is no one to stop them from paying workers half of what they should earn. If we were to agree to this ridiculous proposal, then new workers will suffer, and those already employed will earn less than what they are earning now.

NUMSA has resolved to fight this battle. We will fight to block the greedy Employers from implementing this poverty wage. We have requested a certificate of non-resolution which will allow us to go on strike. We have to wait until the 15th of July to see if we will be granted a strike certificate.

NUMSA will not back down and we will not be bullied. We will fight with all our might to protect the rights of our members and their families, and to ensure a life of dignity for them.

Aluta continua!

The struggle continues!

Issued by Phakamile Hlubi



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