Massive e-toll protest on Wednesday

Do you support the e-tolling strikes?

  • Yes

    Votes: 122 93.8%

  • No

    Votes: 8 6.2%
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Massive e-toll protest


Come Wednesday, Cosatu and all its affiliates will be engaged in a general strike against e-tolling, as well as against labour brokers, the casualization of labour and attempts to restrict the right to strike.
 
Garyvdh said:
Maybe we can make a MyBB meeting point alongside one of the highways where we can picket? :D
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Good luck with that, the faders here didn't even rock up for the Jhb meet where there was free beer involved! :p
 
marine1 said:
If it was just for Tolling, I would support it. I refuse to support anything else
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Agreed, piss poor of Cosatu to use this to push their other agenda

Garyvdh said:
Maybe we can make a MyBB meeting point alongside one of the highways where we can picket? :D
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Id be there

Mike Hoxbig said:
Good luck with that, the faders here didn't even rock up for the Jhb meet where there was free beer involved! :p
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What? Free beer!? No one told me about this.. Honestly the meet took so long to be organised I finally gave up going into that thread. I didn't even know it had finally happened.

Maybe we should organise a Mybb bus and all go to the whiskey festival this year. Then maybe it wouldn't be as awkward as an actual meet might be.
 
These multi strikes are quite efficient.

Maybe the miners and metalworkers should join in, then they don't have to strike in July.
 
Gotta be honest, I support both causes in the strike. It's getting hard to find reliable long-term employment, and there's hardly ever any benefits anymore, and the pay is too little to afford these things out of your own pocket. I've not been able to afford medical aid ever since I've gone off my parents aid. Combining easily into all that is the cost of petrol somehow chews up everything else - can't imagine how bad these tolls are gonna hurt. And again, all these 'temps' don't get fuel allowances or anything like that. It's gotten too easy for companies to dodge investing in their employees.
 
I think wednesday could be a very interesting day in this country...

I am contemplating informing my boss that I will be working from home, purely so that I don't have to risk going on any of the major routes which WILL be chaos.
 
Maybe I will support in solidarity down here by going to the beach for the day and creating a queue at the Ice-Cream guy.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I think wednesday could be a very interesting day in this country...

I am contemplating informing my boss that I will be working from home, purely so that I don't have to risk going on any of the major routes which WILL be chaos.
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That would be a good idea. There's quite a large amount of concern for security. Luckily I'm not going in the direction of any major route that day.
 
marine1 said:
If it was just for Tolling, I would support it. I refuse to support anything else
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Agreed. Not going to be in Town on Wednesday, but even if I was here I would only attend the strike meetings if it was only about the e-tolls and not about anything else.
 
Keep dancing in the streets and then voting for the ANC again. What a bunch of idiots.
 
i work in jhb cbd so can see almost all the marches come past.......
 
Something good for once :) I hate how cocky they are with the tolls saying that it WILL be put into place.. no public interest.. after all we are the ones who they are suppose to be doing good for.. the public..
 
Just take a big poster along making clear you are there to oppose the tolls. COSATU had always planned to strike against labour broking I think even before the tolls.
 
I just listened to COSATU's 2nd deputy president Zingiswa Losi on 702 and the protest action tomorrow is for labour brokering only!

COSATU applied to march for anti labour brokering and anti e-tolling in two separate applications but only the anti labour brokering application was approved.
This means that any COSATU member who strikes for e-tolling is unprotected.

Zingiswa Losi was also rather scathing when John Robbie asked her why COSATU doesn't join the DA in their legal action against SANRAL. She finally said that the DA needs to pay for the toll roads. :mad:
One can clearly see the racist view points of COSATU showing through the cracks and I will not be supporting their anti labour brokering march.
 
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