New Age2.png Mass support for COSATU protest march Bonolo Selebano, The New Age, Johannesburg, 8 October 2015 Thousands thronged the streets of Johannesburg yesterday as workers affiliated to COSATU embarked on a protest march for decent jobs, healthcare, education and for e-tolls to be scrapped. The nationwide protest coincided with International Day of Decent Work. Scores of protesters assembled in Parktown, Johannesburg, and later marched to the offices of Telkom, the office of the Gauteng premier and the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry to deliver memorandums of grievances and demands for economic transformation. COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini addressed more than 4000 marchers and reiterated the federation's demand that e-tolls be scrapped. Dlamini urged the speedy implementation of a minimum wage, which COSATU had set at R8000 a month. "The user pay system of e-tolls, scrap those things. "We also want the national minimum wage to be legislated to protect the most vulnerable workers," he said. South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande was met with rousing applause at Bank City as he criticised the recent spate of retrenchments in the mining sector. "Retrenchments are a declaration of war on decent work," he said. ANC Gauteng secretary Hope Papo was met by throngs of protesters whom he addressed outside the office of the premier. "The issue of e-tolls is not a closed issue and is still on the agenda for the ANC to consider," Papo said. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/08102015/epaperpdf/1.pdf> http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/08102015/epaperpdf/1.pdf -- -- 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/d/optout.
