SACCAWU and SACP march for workers rights
"Police must allow the workers to deal with their daily matters.”
VANDERBIJLPARK. – Members of the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) supported by the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other labour movements took to the streets to present a memorandum of complaint to the Game store and Builders Warehouse (Massmart Management) last week.
They gathered to demonstrate against what they called the company’s act of unilateralism in terms of conditions of employment.
The protesters first started at Builders Warehouse in Bedworthpark, Vereeniging, a day earlier.
They then proceeded to the Vaal Mall in Vanderbijlpark where they were denied entry. Among their demands include the reversal of all forms of unilateralism, commitment to social dialogue, respect for the union restoration of terms and conditions of employment that existed prior to their unilateral restructuring. Nkosonathi Ndwandwe lambasted the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) for corruption. Ndwandwe said that there’s “a serious crisis in the ELM”.
The presence of the Public Order Police was not welcomed by the protesters who complained that police are deployed to guard the march while “criminals are looting the country”.
“Police must allow the workers to deal with their daily matters.”
Justice Mthembu, Store Manager at Game Vaal Mall received the memorandum from the protesters and promised to submit it to his seniors.
