BusinessLive reports that Mzwandile Makwayiba, president of the National Health Education and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), says the dysfunctional state of affiliates will sound a death knell for labour federation Cosatu.  

Opening the union’s four-day congress in Boksburg on Monday, Makwayiba said that if nothing drastic was done to fix the state of Cosatu affiliates, it would soon diminish.  He argued that the dysfunctional state of unions such as the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) and others would sound a death knell for the federation.  Makwayiba said the Cosatu constitution needed to be changed to accommodate powers that would allow the federation’s national office bearers to intervene in unions that were struggling.  Currently, they can do only so on the invitation of the troubled unions.

• Read this report by Theto Mahlakoana in full at BusinessLive
• Read too, Nehawu: Change Cosatu's constitution before it dies, at M&G

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