Zuma 'surrounded by wrong people'

[The_Pumpkin_King]

Durban - The public sector strike turned ugly because President Jacob Zuma was surrounded by people who failed to advise him correctly, the SA Communist Party (SACP) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Wednesday.

"The strike has gone ugly because the president is sitting with (the) wrong people. He is surrounded by people who don’t advise him correctly and that make his office vulnerable," said SACP provincial secretary Themba Mthembu.

He was speaking during the SA Democratic Teachers' Union general council in Durban on Wednesday afternoon.

Mthembu said if Zuma had good advisers, they could have advised him that the strike would be nasty because workers’ pockets had been hit by the recession.

"Zuma should have been advised that there was a need to handle wage negotiations professionally," said Mthembu.

He described Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi as a bad negotiator who caused militancy among striking workers.

"Baloyi is a bad negotiator. The way he has handled the strike and negotiations was like he was watching the Olympics," said Mthembu.

He called for the speedy resolution of the wage dispute.

"Sadly, for now, it seems that the cowboys are in charge."


- SAPA

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Zuma-surrounded-by-wrong-people-20100901

someone had to tell him that? :erm:

 

[blunomore]

If the idiots finalised all the wage negotiations BEFORE the SWC 2010, we would not be sitting in this mess right now.

 

[JungleBoy]

If the idiots finalised all the wage negotiations BEFORE the SWC 2010, we would not be sitting in this mess right now.

I think it's safe to say we wouldn't have had a SWC 2010 in South Africa.

 

[Nod]

someone had to tell him that? :erm:

It seems that JZ, and his "advisers", are not in touch with their voter base ...

 

[blunomore]

I think it's safe to say we wouldn't have had a SWC 2010 in South Africa.

As mentioned in the OP's article, it all depends who you get to negotiate for you.

There are people who are absolute masters at this. I mean brilliant! Professional people get paid A LOT to do this kind of thing, it is a skill that not everyone has.

 

[Mila]

someone had to tell him that? :erm:

Think it’s the lack of education shining through. Not knowing that makes you a world class idiot doesn't it.

 

[unskinnybob]

I agree - ANYONE with only Std. 3 is ALL about who his advisors are.

 

[LazyLion]

Zuma 'surrounded by wrong people'

Ja... otherwise known as the ANC!

 

[davemc]

Hu?
What on earth does this have to do with the issues?

It does not matter if Zuma is being advised by the most intelligent person on earth, the bottom line is that promises were made last year, and they were not implemented, a fact which the strike union leaders are all too aware of because they are guilty of signing agreements that were not representative of what was told to the strikers by the same union leaders.

So, in fact, when the union leaders told the nurses that they were going to get a 33% increase, but signed an agreement that implemented a 3% - 33% increase based on performance, the union leaders were misleading their members.

And, now the exact same thing is happening again, the union leaders are misleading their striking members, pushing once again for a similar agreement from government as last years agreement, whilst at the same time lying to their striking members, and turning down "flat rate increases".

All the union leaders want is the correct sounding wording to be in place, so that they can deceive their members once again.

A line like: "We negotiated an effective 11% increase" is all that the leaders want, they don't care about the actual monetary value of the increase to the individual worker, they're playing a political game to keep themselves in power, and they're playing that game with their members time and money.

 

[JungleBoy]

Hu?
What on earth does this have to do with the issues?

It does not matter if Zuma is being advised by the most intelligent person on earth, the bottom line is that promises were made last year, and they were not implemented, a fact which the strike union leaders are all too aware of because they are guilty of signing agreements that were not representative of what was told to the strikers by the same union leaders.

So, in fact, when the union leaders told the nurses that they were going to get a 33% increase, but signed an agreement that implemented a 3% - 33% increase based on performance, the union leaders were misleading their members.

And, now the exact same thing is happening again, the union leaders are misleading their striking members, pushing once again for a similar agreement from government as last years agreement, whilst at the same time lying to their striking members, and turning down "flat rate increases".

All the union leaders want is the correct sounding wording to be in place, so that they can deceive their members once again.

A line like: "We negotiated an effective 11% increase" is all that the leaders want, they don't care about the actual monetary value of the increase to the individual worker, they're playing a political game to keep themselves in power, and they're playing that game with their members time and money.

Very true that. They can do that every year because they don't have to pay the workers a cent to compensate for lost wages during protracted strikes...