Cosatu details plans for next week’s cost of living strike - The trade union federation is using protest to demand urgent action from the government to avoid an ‘economic collapse’
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Thursday confirmed its plan for a nationwide strike on Wednesday 24 August to protest against the rising costs of fuel and food and the continuing power cuts.
The trade union federation said the strike was to demand urgent action from policy-makers to consider the country’s plight in the face of the high cost of living. adequate food, and many of them cannot find jobs. Workers are dealing with wage stagnation with their wages repealed by inflation and punishing debt.
The strike was also a pushback against the ongoing “warfare” directed at the working class by both the public and private sectors. Ntshalintshali said the constant increases in the fuel levy was a way for the government to feed the “bankrupt” Road Accident Fund.
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