Outrage as Vodacom blocks strikers’ phones

I'm not sure why they're striking, but I'm sure the union execs will be paid and still have all THEIR privileges.
"the working class can kiss my arse......
I've got polyphonic ringtones at last!"

Cory
 
CORY said:
I'm not sure why they're striking, but I'm sure the union execs will be paid and still have all THEIR privileges.
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They're striking (134, at the last count) because they want their union to have the same rights as other unions who meet the 30% representation. Their current representation is around 9%.
 
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Sithebe responded, saying: “The shallow legal opinions by Vodacom legal services is nothing else but tactics aimed at undermining endeavours by the department of communication to normalise the situation.” Workers continued to picket outside Vodaworld headquarters in Midrand, and the company’s Port Elizabeth office on Friday morning.
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Am I the only person that thinks this CWU representative is abusing perscription or other drugs???

Does this mean that the Grim Poisonous Ivyness Creep and her merry cohort of incompetents at the DoC, will soon be joining the CWU toyi-toyi line outside Vodaworld, protesting against 'people that don't look like herself [Ivy's words]'...:rolleyes:
 
vodacom3g said:
They're striking (134, at the last count) because they want their union to have the same rights as other unions who meet the 30% representation. Their current representation is around 9%.
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Wow a whole 134. :D Good luck to them lol. Isn't the 30% prescribed the Labour Relations Act anyway?
 
hah haha love it! all you lazy bastards, take that.
 
Wait hang on.... last time- iirc- vodacom didn't cut the cellphones, and a union said vodacom was tracking strikers via cellphone signal...
 
vodacom3g said:
They're striking (134, at the last count) because they want their union to have the same rights as other unions who meet the 30% representation. Their current representation is around 9%.
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Sounds like they should go back to being a silent minority.............

I hope they all dressed warm this morning as it is "a cold day in hell".
 
Debbie2 said:
Wait hang on.... last time- iirc- vodacom didn't cut the cellphones, and a union said vodacom was tracking strikers via cellphone signal...
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That time it was a single employee that decided to take a day of paid sick leave to attend to her personal business at a union meeting, and it was put to her that Vodacom's cellphone was attending a union meeting instead of being at home recovering from her alleged illness...:rolleyes:
MyDraadloos said:
Sounds like they should go back to being a silent minority.............

I hope they all dressed warm this morning as it is "a cold day in hell".
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Well if these striking employees had any brains, they would ditch the CWU and join another union that has more representation within Vodacom...
 
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ic said:
That time it was a single employee that decided to take a day of paid sick leave to attend to her personal business at a union meeting, and it was put to her that Vodacom's cellphone was attending a union meeting instead of being at home recovering from her alleged illness...:rolleyes:
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:D:D:D:D:D

Well, if it's a company cellphone (or company-sponsored whatevah) then the company have the right to know where their cellphone's going...

But if it's my own cellphone, paid out of my own pocket, then it's an invasion of privacy, plain and simple.
 
The_Librarian said:
:D:D:D:D:D

Well, if it's a company cellphone (or company-sponsored whatevah) then the company have the right to know where their cellphone's going...

But if it's my own cellphone, paid out of my own pocket, then it's an invasion of privacy, plain and simple.
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It was a company phone, IIRC Vodacom said they were tracking their asset rather than the person, I guess the location of the 2 just happened to coincide. :D
 
The_Librarian said:
:D:D:D:D:D

Well, if it's a company cellphone (or company-sponsored whatevah) then the company have the right to know where their cellphone's going...

But if it's my own cellphone, paid out of my own pocket, then it's an invasion of privacy, plain and simple.
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It was most definitely a cellphone and SIM card that belong to Vodacom - one of those working conditions benefits that the CWU members are currently striking about...:rolleyes:

Must be the end of the world when one's employer issues one with a cellphone and SIM card to use for company business, and that remains the property of the employer, and then the employer blocks the employer's own SIM card so that the employee cannot use the SIM card to coordinate striking activity at the employer's expense...
 
Thanks for clearing that up ic.

Labour has excessive employment protections in SA, undoubtedly to the detriment of productivity. If 134 people feel aggrieved, they should join a larger union. I agree with Vodacom's decision to lock these workers out.... and hearing them complain about their SIM cards being cut is ridiculous- "hey, if you wanna use your company cellphone, go to work!"
 
Vodacom legally entitled to do this but this is bad publicity. Strikers have long memories, just ask Geraldine Frasier Moloketi.
 
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