IOL latest.png COSATU affiliates not leaving Zintle Mahlati, IOL, Johannesburg, 3 Jun 2016 COSATU's top brass remains adamant that two of its affiliates are not leaving to join a new labour federation. The federation's deputy general secretary Solly Phetoe said, even though there were some national office bearers within the Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) and the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) who wanted to leave, most of their members did not support this view. Both unions were said to be interested in joining the new federation to be launched, by the latest, next year. It is spearheaded by the country's largest union, NUMSA, and axed COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Phetoe was addressing over 700 delegates at the National Union of Mineworkers central committee meeting in Pretoria on Friday. Loud cheers "The national office bearers of COSATU have met with those two affiliates and they have confirmed they are not leaving, even though there are certain individuals of their national officer bearers who want to leave, but members have confirmed they are going nowhere," said Phetoe, followed by loud cheers from the audience. Phetoe was at pains to explain that COSATU was working on ensuring unity amongst its affiliates. "Since the national congress, national office bearers of COSATU have been working tirelessly to ensure that we implement the programme of union cohesion. All affiliates, besides two are back in the central executive committee of COSATU," said Phetoe. Leaders of the SA Football Players Union, which is also affiliated to COSATU, want to join the new federation. From: <http://mini.iol.co.za/business/news/cosatu-affiliates-not-leaving-2030205> http://mini.iol.co.za/business/news/cosatu-affiliates-not-leaving-2030205 -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002401d1bf06%2463c32f20%242b498d60%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
