** *NUMSA TO PICKET OUTSIDE CCMA OFFICE – CENTRAL JOHANNESBURG*
*Wednesday July 31, 2013 * The Shopstewards of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) working at the monopoly and state-owned power utility ESKOM will hold a peaceful picket, outside the offices of Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), in Johannesburg’s CBD (*28 Harrison Street *), tomorrow Thursday August 1, 2013, as from 9h00am. The picket forms part of our organizational strategy to exert pressure to ESKOM to concede to our collective bargaining demands and improved conditions of employment for our members. ESKOM has deferred a dispute with the CCMA, after wage negotiations collapsed and deadlock was reached. The ESKOM’s bully-boys want to impose a 5.6% wage offer and a collective bargaining agreement for a period of 5 years. Both these offers have been totally rejected by our members in various ESKOM plants. * * *“Eskom must dig-deep from its coffers and give workers a living wage. Our members are heavily feeling the economic burden of taking care of their extended families and relatives because of the scandalous high unemployment rate and skyrocketing cost of living in modern day capitalist South Africa”, * says Numsa Basic Metals and Energy Sector Coordinator Stephen Nhlapo *“They (Eskom) have a responsibility to adhere to the electoral commitments of the ANC government. Our government promised to deliver decent jobs and sustainable livelihoods for the workers and the poor. They can be no decent jobs and sustainable livelihoods without a living wage. Not unless Eskom wants to retain and reproduce old apartheid income inequalities”*, said Nhlapo The details of the picket are as follows: *DATE*: Thursday August 01, 2013 *TIME*: 09H00am *VENUE*: CCMA Offices, 28 Harrison Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report. Contact: Stephen Nhlapo *National Sector Coordinator: Basic Metals and Energy* Mobile: 0836326986 Email: [email protected] -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
