EWN reports that a new trade union umbrella body has set down 2017 as the year to fight white monopoly capital.  

The new federation, consisting of 50 unions including some break away unions from Cosatu, held a briefing at the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) offices in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday.  Its leader, Zwelinzima Vavi, said the body did not yet have a name or logo, but he encouraged workers to go online and weigh in (go to New Federation).  He advised that the new federation was gearing up towards its formal founding congress in March 2017.  The new federation will take a militant fighting approach for workers’ rights and a range of plans include pickets at the JSE, a strike to coincide with the budget speech and other actions in the fight against white monopoly capital.

• Read this report by Masa Kekana at EWN
• See too, Vavi unveils website for new federation, at SABC News

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