Labour Court to hear Ntlokotse’s arguments that the union’s elections were invalid and that Jim should be arrested.
The Johannesburg Labour Court will hear an urgent application from unionist Ruth Ntlokotse asking the court to find the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa , its general secretary, Irvin Jim, and its president, Andrew Chirwa, in contempt of court.that the union’s congress should not go ahead. She is seeking an order that would declare the elections and all decisions taken at the congress null and void.
She is asking the court to declare that the congress “was not lawfully convened” and that “all the resolutions passed thereat, including nominations and elections are invalid and of no force and effect”. Ntlokotse argues that since the accreditation by the credentials committee only took place on the Tuesday of the congress week, the central committee should have given six months’ written notice of the congress. Instead, it proceeded the next day.
Jim says that changes to the definitions in the annexure to the union’s constitution, including a requirement that delegates’ credentials be confirmed by a regional executive committee, were made within the delegated powers of the committee.
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