SAMWU SAYS THE DISMISSAL OF NUMSA IS THE EMBARRASSMENT TO THE ENTIRE EXISTENCE OF LABOUR MOVEMENT ESPECIALLY COSATU
11 November 2014
The South African Municipal Workers Union in the Eastern Cape maintains its stance that of defending Cosatu. The defence of COSATU includes in our view defending NUMSA as we remain opposed to the dismissal of NUMSA in COSATU because they also seek to defend the soul of the Federation.
The reason why we defend COSATU is that there is a grouping that is held bent on liquidating COSATU to be a sweetheart union of the ruling class and the party. That is why their agenda is silent any ascendant view which seeks to maintain COSATU as a revolutionary militant and campaigning Federation.
That is why in the first instance they wanted to remove the General Secretary of the federation through the back door, because he continued to maintain the afore-mention values which COSATU stood for all these years. NUMSA now becomes a sacrificed lamb as a result of the same defence of the federation that seeks to realise the radical Economic Transformation as outlined in the Freedom Charter the people's document.
In support of the nine affiliates view and COSATU in the Eastern Cape PEC that this is not a personality fight but about the ideological and political direction of the federation.