NUMSA MEMBERS TO MARCH IN AFFLUENT AND EXCLUSIVE PLAYING-GROUND FOR THE RICH - MELROSE ARCH FOR A LIVING WAGE AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
14 November 2011 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) representing 4000 workers working at Xstrata will be marching tomorrow Tuesday 15 November 2011, Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, Gauteng province. This march forms part of the organizational strategy to exert pressure to Xstrata ruling oligarchy to accede to workers demands. The march will be led by NUMSA President CEDRIC GINA and COSATU 2nd Deputy President ZINGISWA LOSI. A throng of 4000 workers will converge at open ground space, Melrose Arch tomorrow morning to hand-over a Memorandum of Demands to Xstrata's Director-Human Resource Mr Edwin Hlatshwayo. This march will be taking place amidst the impromptu arrest of NUMSA members by SAPS under the instruction of one of Xstrata's key executive. The arrested members have since been released by a sober Rusternburg Magistrate Court judge after presenting concrete evidence that state organs, particularly police are being abused or bullied to muzzle and deny workers their constitutional rights to assemble or embark on a protected industrial action. This march will also serve as a platform to caution the ruling class that workers are not blind and their refuse to be subjected to the old apartheid era police tactics of trampling upon their rights. The details of the march are as follows: DATE: Tuesday 15 November 2011 TIME: 11h00am VENUE: Open Ground, Melrose Arch,Cnr Athol Oaklands and Wilowbrook Close , Johannesburg, Gauteng Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report. Please confirm attendance with NUMSA National Spokesperson @ 073 299 1595 Enquiries: Castro Ngobess, National Spokesperson @ 073 299 1595 Castro's iPad -- 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] .
