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EWN reports that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has issued a call to all workers and South Africans to join its national strike next week.
The trade union federation called on people to stay away from work or take to the streets in various rally's across the country on Wednesday, 24 August. Briefing the media at Cosatu House in Braamfontein on Thursday, the federation’s president Zingiswa Losi said the protected national strike was meant to put pressure on both the government and the private sector to correct and resolve the socioeconomic challenges that continued to stifle South African households. “Workers cannot continue to sit back whilst we continue to suffer. The lives of the people of South Africa need to change and so we are urging that we all join hands together and raise these issues because it is not about workers who are on slave wages, but it is also about the economy that is not able to create employment,” she asserted. Sending a strong message to the governing party, Losi said the ANC must act on the concerns raised by disgruntled South Africans or face their wrath at the polls. Cosatu’s announcement came just a week after the SA Federation of Trade Unions indicated it would also be embarking on a national shutdown on the same day against the rising cost of living, load shedding and fuel hikes.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Veronica Mokhoali at EWN
- Lees ook, Cosatu wil land tot stilstand bring, by Maroela Media
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