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The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has responded to Cosatu about why it should not be expelled, union president Andrew Chirwa said on Monday.
"We have complied with the Congress of SA Trade Union's (Cosatu) demand. We made a submission within the seven-day deadline," he said.
Cosatu and Numsa have been at loggerheads following the suspension of Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
Numsa wants Vavi's suspension to be lifted and has led eight other unions in calling for a special Cosatu national conference.
"A group within Cosatu is running away from its constituency. They refuse a special national conference. I wonder where do they get a mandate?"
He said Numsa was a critical component of Cosatu, and a founding member, and that Cosatu's central committee had turned into a sex tribunal.
"They spend a year discussing sex scandals... they are pre-occupied with sex scandals to the extent that they violated the Cosatu constitution.
"The master plan is paralyse Cosatu and get rid of Vavi and expel Numsa."
Numsa resolved at its special national congress in December that it would not support the ANC or fund its election campaign, and it has called for Cosatu to pull out of the tripartite alliance with the African National Congress and the SA Communist Party.
Source : Sapa /mm/jk/lp/cls
Date : 10 Mar 2014 12:38
"We have complied with the Congress of SA Trade Union's (Cosatu) demand. We made a submission within the seven-day deadline," he said.
Cosatu and Numsa have been at loggerheads following the suspension of Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
Numsa wants Vavi's suspension to be lifted and has led eight other unions in calling for a special Cosatu national conference.
"A group within Cosatu is running away from its constituency. They refuse a special national conference. I wonder where do they get a mandate?"
He said Numsa was a critical component of Cosatu, and a founding member, and that Cosatu's central committee had turned into a sex tribunal.
"They spend a year discussing sex scandals... they are pre-occupied with sex scandals to the extent that they violated the Cosatu constitution.
"The master plan is paralyse Cosatu and get rid of Vavi and expel Numsa."
Numsa resolved at its special national congress in December that it would not support the ANC or fund its election campaign, and it has called for Cosatu to pull out of the tripartite alliance with the African National Congress and the SA Communist Party.
Source : Sapa /mm/jk/lp/cls
Date : 10 Mar 2014 12:38