The Conference successfully completed this task and re-affirmed its determination:
-to step up the fight for a living wage
The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) held its Annual National Bargaining Conference from #
-to smash the reactionary attacks on the union’s bargaining structures, such as bargaining councils and the extension of its industry-wide collective agreements
-to strengthen centralised bargaining
-to stamp out the scourge of non-compliance with bargaining council agreements and lab its laws in its industry
-to strengthen its fight against the scourge of HIV/AIDS
-to step up its campaign against illegal imports and customs fraud
-to strengthen the Buy Local and Proudly South African campaigns with a special focus on ensuring compliance by provincial governments and municipalities with government’s directive that all clothing, textile, footwear and leather goods purchased are made in South Africa
-to concretise its solidarity support for other COSATU affiliates’ living wage, recruitment and organising campaigns
-to unite COSATU and ensure the federation takes up an aggressive fight for decent work and a living wage for all workers
-to crush bogus cooperatives,set up to deliberately circumvent the provisions of lab its laws, including by using the new Cooperatives Amendment Act to ensure bogus co-operatives are exposed and workers’ status as employees with worker rights are restored-to strengthen capacity building amongst its newly elected and re-elected shop stewards, to help with better service delivery for its members
-to campaign and work tirelessly for a resounding victory by the ANC in the 2014 National Elections, as the best party to advance worker rights and interests in the upcoming general elections
-to use the appropriate structures to address the introduction of the Employee Tax Incentive (ETI) Act without proper consultation and agreement at Nedlac
-to monitor the implementation of the ETI Act to ensure employers who abuse it by firing older workers or employing ineligible workers are reported and fined.
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