Cosatu considering total Vodacom boycott

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Cosatu's central executive committee is to consider whether to boycott cellphone company Vodacom, the union federation said on Monday.

"We welcome the support for such a campaign by the SA Communist Party, and will appeal to other unions to join the boycott and shift all their cellphone accounts to other operators," the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said in a statement.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20090518163837593C647845

Ijots. Do they think that so many member are able to afford to move to other providers?

"It was a victory for money over people," Craven said.

Craven said Cosatu remained convinced that the deal would remove any remaining South African control over the country's biggest cellphone company.

Now who is in it for the money, looks like your ANC buddies in government?

Honestly Cosatu sprout the biggest load of rubbish. Selling off any government interests in Vodacom can only create jobs. So Cosatu please explain exactly how your strance will"protect the interests of Vodacom workers and all South Africans"?

 

[davemc]

I am Jacks utter confusion.

 

[Rendier]

WELL THEN GO!

Good Luck trying to get Signal on Cell C and to afford the contracts on MTN.

Bunch of Idiots!

 

[BBSA]

The scary thing is that these idiots have now a much bigger say in government.

 

[Empiricism Philosopher]

They are the government

 

[TELESPHORE]

And Cosatu is going to control our personal communications channels? Not so. The only way they have is to voice objections at a General shareholders meeting. For that they have to have shares. Go figure that out.

 

[smokey]

In the background... COSATU reps prattling on...

Englishman 1: Do you remember when we had those nutters in England?
Englishman 2: Nah... I wasn't born yet...

 

[Sneeky]

So, what do all the BEE mense that benefited from the Vodacom shares fpr almost mahala have to say about this attempt to stifle the companies progress in the telecoms sector by the commies?

 

[marine1]

I think Cosatu may just be worried that their members may now have to actually WORK for a living.

 

[R13...]

Get this, both Vavi & Craven are on Vodacom.
...and both will not be boycotting Vodacom until a central committee meets to decide if they should join the boycott.

Oh, the irony... walk the talk...?

Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)'s secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi and its spokesperson Patrick Craven are still on the Vodacom network, the SABC reported on Tuesday.

This was despite the union's call for workers to boycott the mobile company after its failed court attempt to halt Vodacom's listing on the JSE on Sunday.

Craven told the broadcaster that both Vavi and himself would only stop using the network once the labour federation's central executive committee had endorsed the decision

 

[Albereth]

Please, please, please boycott Vodacom. Please.

Maybe that way I won't have any network busy or dropped call issues.

 

[hennievr]

Please, please, please boycott Vodacom. Please.

Maybe that way I won't have any network busy or dropped call issues.

Ye need to agree with you. These are the people that glog up the networks everyday by organising mass actions, boycotts, ungovernable strategies. Cannot wait to be able to make a call again on Vodacoms' network again.