{"id":663,"date":"2007-07-17T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T09:09:22","slug":"vodacom-seeks-second-interdict-says-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/663-vodacom-seeks-second-interdict-says-union.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom seeks second interdict, says union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom lodged an application for the second interdict last week and the matter would be heard on Wednesday, said CWU spokesperson Mfanafuthi Sithebe.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Vodacom is citing possible violence and damages … CWU publicly challenges Vodacom to provide any proof of violence or damages sustained.<\/p>\n

“No damages to persons or property have been reported … we will oppose their application,” he said.<\/p>\n

Vodacom’s first application, intended to halt the strike, was denied.<\/p>\n

Industrial action at the cellphone company has entered its third week.<\/p>\n

Workers’ main grievance was that they had no voice at the company. The company required 30% of their 4 302-strong workforce to join the CWU before it would negotiate with the union.<\/p>\n

Union members will march from Gandhi Square in central Johannesburg to a nearby Vodacom call centre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We will expose the horrendous working conditions at this centre that Vodacom wants to hide,” said Sithebe.<\/p>\n

Workers at Vodacom downed tools on July 2, demanding recognition of the CWU.<\/p>\n

Vodacom had not immediately responded to written questions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) pledged its full support for the CWU in the dispute with Vodacom.<\/p>\n

“Vodacom is a big, highly profitable company — it has no excuse for not meeting these reasonable demands from its workers,” Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said.<\/p>\n

“There can be no justification for the employer’s stubborn refusal to give CWU full recognition.”<\/p>\n

Craven said the absence of such recognition subjected workers to disciplinary hearings without proper or fair representation, for instance.<\/p>\n

“Some even appear before disciplinary hearings without any representation. That is why the union is rightly demanding that Vodacom recognise shop stewards elected by the workers.”<\/p>\n

He added that the federation stood ready to respond to any request for assistance from the CWU.<\/p>\n

Comments<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vodacom is going to court again, this time to prevent striking workers from violence and damaging property, the Communication Workers’ Union said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}