New Age2.png CWU reaches recognition agreement with ANN7 Tiisetso Manoko, The New Age, Johannesburg, 22 July 2016 Communications Workers Union signed for the first time an agreement with Oakbay-owned African News Network 7 (ANN7) to be a recognised union. Secretary General Aubrey Tshabalala said it has not been a smooth riding to be recognised at the TV channel. "It has been a long discussion with the management, we had a 19 page discussion, the workers have been the one telling us what to say concerning their situations," Tshabalala said. He said they had challenges of workers joining and leaving the union during the discussions with management to be recognised as the union. CWU Deal.jpg Tshabalala said they agreed with the management that they need to be involved in human capital development, which the company has already started under the leadership of Editor-In-Chief Moegsien Williams and team of employee relations experts. "Going forward there is going to be elections of shop-stewards, they will be dealing with small issues that might arise in the channel, bigger issues would be escalated to the bigger structures," he said. The union currently has 31% membership at ANN7, they however aim to recruit more members at The New Age. "Next week we would be holding a general meeting with our members, during the office hours, even those who are not joined are welcomed," he said. Tshabalala said more needs to be done as they aim to reach 50% plus 1 of the ANN7 employees. Managing Editor Gary Naidoo said they are satisfied with the agreement and hope they will be able to work with all stakeholders well. "ANN7 has at all times stated that it is committed to reaching an agreement with CWU. We are glad that we finally signed the agreement," Naidoo said. He said with these agreement the company hopes that they will have a good working relationship both with the union and workers. "We hoping that these will make the ANN7 a news channel of choice for our workers," he said. On the closure of Bank accounts Meanwhile CWU said it is worrying that banks get involved in political affairs. The agreement means that the union can now represent workers. "If a bank has to stop doing business with any company or anyone, reasons have to be financial not political," Tshabalala said. The Union will also focus on collective bargaining and issues around employment equity. Asked to comment further on equity, Tshabalala said they will soon request the official numbers and comment further. "We are going to look into issues and engage management based on official statistics and facts, he said. From: <http://www.thenewage.co.za/cwu-reaches-recognition-agreement-with-ann7/> http://www.thenewage.co.za/cwu-reaches-recognition-agreement-with-ann7/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13845 (20160722) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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/000c01d1e439%2463e3b030%242bab1090%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
