South African Federation of Trade Unions membership numbers decline - Saftu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says the reason for the dwindling numbers a result of the economic crisis and other factors
While the South African Federation of Trade Unions deliberates on their elections of their new office bearers, tension in the federation have caused membership numbers to decline.
The congress was expected to vote this afternoon regarding four officials — Saftu president Mac Chavalala, second deputy president Thabo Matsose, national treasurer Motshwari Lecogo and deputy general secretary Moleko Phakedi — who were suspended earlier this year after the federation’s secretary was “illegally suspended”.Voting was also delayed by several issues such as ballot papers having to be corrected and agendas being altered.
“The drop reflects the overall demise of the South Africa proletariat in a context in which an extreme pandemic disrupted global capitalism, brazen official neoliberalism was adopted in mid-2020, and capitalist crises of inequality and unregulated technological change played out,” said Vavi.
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