South Africa’s biggest trade union federation remains worried about the plight of the country’s working class. | JasonFelix
South Africans workers may be under siege, but they have not forsaken the tripartite alliance.
This is according to Congress of SA Trade Unions president Zingiswa Losi who preached unity at a Workers' Day rally in the Free State. "Workers have always insisted that their struggles be advanced on all fronts and have been clear that working class struggles must be waged on the political front, in the alliance, at Nedlac, in Parliament and in the streets. We will not surrender the state or the alliance to tenderpreneurs or the elite," she said.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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