The Citizen reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has vowed to expose the “common agenda” of the ANC and the DA to pursue neo-liberal policies at the expense of the poor.
Numsa’s re-elected general secretary, Irvin Jim, said in his secretariat report to the union’s 10th national congress that the real reason that the union was expelled from Cosatu was because of the federation’s constant political posturing, including its call for the implementation of the Freedom Charter that promised that there shall be a national minimum wage and the abolition of the contract labour system. “If the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their names, the real reason why Numsa had to be dismissed in Cosatu was its constant political position. Numsa has and continues to leave no stone unturned in exposing the common agenda of the ANC and the DA,” Jim said in his report. He claimed the common vision of the ANC and the DA was a consensus of being anti-working class.
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