Netwerk24 reports that Cosatu intends to strike next month to express its unhappiness with the state of public transport in the Western Cape.  

The labour federation last week postponed protest action, saying that the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) misled the media and the business sector by indicating that the required procedures for protected protest action had not been followed.  Western Cape provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said that to protect his members’ job security the strike had had to be postponed.  It has now been decided that it will take place on 12 July 2016 in the Cape Town CBD.  Nedlac spokesperson Kim Jurgensen indicated that notice of the planned strike was received on 20 June.  She said that applications for protest action have to be served with 14 days’ notice, and thus any action after 4 July will be protected.  (Loosely translated from Afrikaans)

• Read this report by Malherbe Nienaber in full in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (paywall)

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