There is 'absolutely zero' in govt's kitty for bailouts, including at SAA - Mthembu

[yebocan]

Workers have the right to strike, but not when they work at national key points. This is in the constitution too.

Most of the SABC places of work are national key points.
All the large airports are national key points.
Many Eskom power stations are key points.
Denel is a national key point.
ETc... Etc..

So many of the strikes we see at SoEs are entirely unconstitutional. The recent SAA airport strikes should by rights have attracted the attention of the SADF and have seen most of the workers there jailed in the interest of national security. But the ANC is afraid of it's own allies.

And so they keep on making a mockery of the law.

The right to strike is enshrined in the constitution...National Key Points is an Act of parliament and does not trump any constitutional provisions....if the Act (bygone Apartheid era legislation) had any labour relations provisions that ran counter to the Constitution, it would have been stripped...by the Constitution of 1993/6

 

[TheChamp]

Irony would entail a result that is the opposite of what one would expect ... I fully expect the retrenchments to focus on the honest, hardworking ones and keep the thieves where they are, no irony at all.

What honest and hardworking people? This is an SOE and they are all a bunch of cadres, retrench them all.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

What honest and hardworking people? This is an SOE and they are all a bunch of cadres, retrench them all.

well yes, of course, but on the off chance that there's any decent, skilled, uncorrupted staff among them, those will be retrenched first, guaranteed

 

[ForceFate]

well yes, of course, but on the off chance that there's any decent, skilled, uncorrupted staff among them, those will be retrenched first, guaranteed

That's simply not true.

 

[The Trutherizer]

The right to strike is enshrined in the constitution...National Key Points is an Act of parliament and does not trump any constitutional provisions....if the Act (bygone Apartheid era legislation) had any labour relations provisions that ran counter to the Constitution, it would have been stripped...by the Constitution of 1993/6

I see. I thought it was in the constitution. Still. The ANC still makes a great show of declaring sites national key points. I am reminded of when they with great fanfare declare Medupi and Kusile national key points. I have to wonder why. Is this just now a honorific bestowed on a place? Is there no practical purpose? Is national security now secondary to labour concerns? We'll have to speak again when some terrorist organisation starts shopping for planes at our national airports while workers strike. Maybe something like that would put things in context.

 

[The_Librarian]

Speaking of terrorist, what are Boko Haram doing?