SACTWU to step up fight for living wage

10 Mar '14

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The Conference successfully completed this task and re-affirmed its determination:

-to step up the fight for a living wage

-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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