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EWN reports that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and finance union Sasbo on Thursday said they would be appealing the Labour Court ruling interdicting a planned banking sector strike on Friday.
The court application was brought by Business Unity SA (Busa), which argued that the correct channels were not followed for permission to embark on the nationwide action. Workers in the banking sector had wanted to protest about sector job losses. Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali described the Labour Court outcome as a bad judgment and said they would not only appeal the ruling but also resubmit another Section 77 (protest action) application because the problems plaguing workers, especially in the finance sector, had not gone away. He insisted that the federation had done everything correctly as per Nedlac protocols for acquiring a Section 77 strike certificate and even noted that Nedlac had confirmed that the federation was compliant.
- Read the full original of the above report by Thando Kubheka & Theto Mahlakoana at EWN
- Read too, Cosatu and Sasbo set to appeal interdict halting planned bank strike, at TimesLIVE
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