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Cape Times reports that UCT and Wits University have made about-turns on outsourcing staff, agreeing that they will review the policy following demands by students to end the practice.
On Sunday an alliance of workers and students vowed to continue shutting down all operations on University of Cape Town (UCT) property until outsourcing was brought to an end at the university. Vice-chancellor Max Price said UCT’s council had decided to review its outsourcing policy and committed to bringing |a proposal on the question of outsourcing and insourcing to workers and students by 1 November. National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) chairperson Patricia Bevie commented: “UCT is responsible, through outsourcing, for bringing private companies into this public sector institution. These private sector companies are making profit out of public sector funding and the exploited labour of workers.” Meantime, Adam Habib, vice-chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), committed to drawing up a workers’ charter. “The university will also establish its own internal commission to investigate the effects of outsourcing on the university,” Habib said. He indicated that the university would seek to support all children of all outsourced workers financially, provided the children qualified for admission to the university.
- Read this report by Carlo Petersen in full at Cape Times
- See too, End to outsourcing at Wits may lead to bankruptcy: Habib, at SABC News
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