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I just saw on the news cosatu going on a major strike again tommorow in order for the govt to listen and create jobs.

But is there any chance we can contact cosatu tell them that telkom is fscking our economy and we can create a lot more jobs if we had better connections and then improving our economy.

If a lot of africans strike about the telecom prices etc the govt will listen :P
 
Brilliant idea! And then we can strike about the petrol price. And also about the price on a King Steer burger. And then all will be great!

But seriously, im sure they are the only people that can get the job done. How could we get something like that started?
 
A major strike ???.
Looking at the taxi rank this morning it is business as usual.
 
According to the news on the radio this morning it was confined to the western cape.
 
The blind leading the blind...

COSATU = Comrades Of Sandton Addresses, Together Unite.

These tossers know less about the economy than the ANCYL and yet they continue to persuade wekkas to strike.

Who does this benefit? Only the comrades in charge of COSATU.

Idiots. :mad:
 
bwana v.4 said:
According to the news on the radio this morning it was confined to the western cape.
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Business as usual here.
 
kilps said:
I think Eastern as well - I heard the car manufactorers are suffering ....
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Yeah - heard that too. They had some guy from GM who seemed to be asking why foreign investors would ever want to invest in a market like this.
 
Cosatu can like to be part of the governmint in tri-partite agreement. (ANC, SACP, and COSATU). So I don't see much interest from them in participating in this.

However, if you mentioned that Telkom are part of the conspiracy to get rid of Zuma becuase he favours unbundling the local loop to the Shaik family (and not to Kebble - who got whacked by mistake over this), then you might get them interested.

Sorry - I do know that this is a serious forum and I wasn't trying to hijack the thread.
 
The ANC will ignore them as it has done the last 10 years and not change ONE aspect of govt policy to appease them.

So when will the dumb ****s in charge of Cosatu and the SACP finally realize this and go their own bloody way as they need the ANC more than what the ANC needs them.
 
Hear, hear!!! I've been shouting this to the rooftops for the past 5 years at least, but there are none so deaf as those who will not hear...
 
Cosatu comprise of a hell of a lot of different trade unions, to get cosatu,( i.e.
Confederation of South African Trade Unions), on board is to lobby the different unions that do belong to them, and let them run with the idea (you know motivate the unions) tell them how good a deregulated telkom will be for them (not just for the country) if they can get a sense of (we are going to get some thing (we is the operative word) you will see that they will then take it from there. As most of the people don’t have internet access (or DSL) the masses think that broadband is just for the privilege few, the different unions must be made to understand how a telkom taken out of the hands of incompetent individuals can benefit them, do something (even if its just on paper, for starters) of how the rural communities can and will benefit from a telecommunication deregulation...then show it to the trade unions
GOOD LUCK
 
One thing I think that has kept COSATU on the back burner, has been the fact that PIC bought all those Telkom shares. PIC holds all the Pension money, buck the trend and you can kiss your pension money bye bye. I think the sale of the shares has gone through now.
 
Also, when the day finally comes that COSATU realises its been co-opted and made toothless, by becoming part of Government - and pulls away and becomes a truly independent Union with serious teeth and the muscle to institute change, regardless of whether its 'convenient' for the current ANC government or not - then we'll see some real fun. For now they seem to have let themselves become the ANC's puppy. A sad end for independent unionised worker power.
 
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