COSATU Round.png 27 September 2016 COSATU Mpumalanga Supports SADTU members who have embarked on an Industrial Action The Congress of South African Unions in Mpumalanga fully supports the thousands of members of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, who have embarked on industrial action to protest against the attempt by the Mpumalanga Department of Education to cut down on jobs of more than 1400 members. COSATU rejects this proposal with contempt because of the following reasons: . That the attempt by the department is malicious and ridiculous and views it as self defeat towards creating decent work for all. . That this attempt will further increase unemployment and cause further strain to the already ailing job market. We call upon the department to come back to sanity and emulate what prevails nationally and preserve the status quo that of maintaining the current post provisioning norms . That we will not agree with any proposal or participate in any process that will lead to the chopping of needed teaching posts in the face of rising learner enrolment figures. . That the proposals are malignant to teaching and learning and should be rejected and resisted with the might of SADTU and COSATU. . That the employer should source additional funding rather than cutting essential teaching jobs. Secondly, COSATU also rejects with contempt the freezing of vacancies or employment opportunities by the same department. We view this as counterproductive and insensitive on the part of the department and not taking account of the high levels of unemployment rate ravaging the province. We therefore call on the Mpumalanga Department of Education to hold meaningful engagements with SADTU. Failure to do so we will be left with no option but not to engage on a full blown industrial action which will lead to the complete shutdown of service in the department. Further note that COSATU in the province will lead a march to the Department of Labour on the 7th October 2016 which marks the International Day on Decent work, amongst the contentious issues to be raised is the matter above For more information please contact: Cde David Mokoena, COSATU Mpumalanga Provincial Secretary, 073 750 2041 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14186 (20160927) __________ 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/002401d218c0%24de5781f0%249b0685d0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
