* **YCLSA on the use of court orders to halt strikes by government*
*22 AUGUST 2010* The Young Communist League of South Africa (uFasimba) is concerned with government’s knee jerk reaction to the strike, resorting to instruments such as the court to halt the Public sector mass action. We view this as antagonistic and affirmation that the state still serves and protects class interests of an elite few to the detriment of our people; some of which are enjoying the life of luxury within the public sector itself. This is in no way a conducive solution for all parties involved. It does not assist in finding a long-term progressive solution which will benefit all stakeholders. Conditions of employment are still severe for most of Public sector workers and yet government has vanity expectations about service delivery from them. Finding petty reasons to deviate from the core problems as demonstrated by Minister Richard Baloyi through his arrogance, will only pro-long mass actions and create further hostile relations between government and workers. We urge government to consider the ramifications of pro-longing the strike and more importantly take into account our poor masses that only have public services as a means to life. Its highly opportunistic and distorted that workers be blamed as they have the right to demand a decent living wage and protest if need be. The gap between government senior officials and government workers has become no different from that of the private sector in terms of relations and wages. This can only create more tensions and stalemates in negotiations. We re-affirm our unwavering support to workers in the public sector and hope that they will not be deterred by apartheid style antics used to silence them. *Issued by the YCLSA Head office* *For more information* *Contact* *Gugu Ndima* *National Spokesperson* *076 783 1516 * -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
