Numsa expelled from Cosatu:Saturday 8 November 2014. Numsa says Cosatu failed to unify the federation.
(SABC) The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has been expelled from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). The outcome of a vote came in the early hours of Saturday morning was 33 for the union to be booted out and 24 opposed. The decision followed a lengthy presentation by Numsa general secretary, Ivin Jim where he mounted a last ditch attempt to save the union from getting the chop.
In his submission, Jim defended the resolutions taken at the union's Special National Congress in December last year. Cosatu Press Briefing, 11 November 2014. Numsa expulsion letter from Cosatu. NUMSA media briefing. NUMSA Media Briefing Part 2. Letter From Cosatu Secretary General, Zwelinzima Vavi to Federation Leaders. Vavi’s future within Cosatu unclear :Sunday 16 November 2014. Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
(SABC) The future of Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi hangs in the balance. This follows a letter he had written, distancing himself from the expulsion of Numsa from the federation. Cosatu's second Deputy President, Zingiswa Losi, says it is up to Cosatu affiliates to decide Vavi's future. Losi has addressed a SACP District Congress in Philippi on the Cape Flats. Losi says Vavi had admitted that he was working with Nactu and Fedusa to form an alternative Labour Federation. Numsa plans to form an alternative political platform, the United Front, next month.
ANC media briefing on the expulsion of Numsa from Cosatu. Our sin was to defend Vavi: Numsa:Thursday 13 November 2014. Irvin Jim says Numsa’s relationship with Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini has run its course.
(SABC) The Secretary General of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) Irvin Jim has conceded that the relationship between his union and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Sdumo Dlamini has run its course. Numsa was expelled from the federation at the weekend. Jim says they have had hard times under Dlamini's leadership. “We had difficulty under his leadership as Numsa. Vavi has meanwhile described the decision to expel Numsa from Cosatu as tantamount to committing suicide by jumping off a cliff. He is actually playing the saintly role and saying look I don't care who is right or wrong, I don't care I am now standing here and saying we now need unity but at the same time. Vavi wrote this in a letter to Cosatu where he explained his absence at the Cosatu media conference on Monday to explain the historic Saturday decision. Jim urges members to fight Cosatu expulsion:Monday 17 November 2014.
Irvin Jim says Numsa's call for a workers' socialist political party came from Cosatu's own resolutions.
(SABC) National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa) secretary general, Irvin Jim, has called on the union's members to fight their expulsion from labour federation, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). Jim has confirmed that Numsa will appeal the expulsion. He addressed workers at an indaba held in Pretoria on Monday, he says the union's call for a workers' socialist political party came from the Cosatu's own resolutions. Jim said Numsa had resolved that workers needed their own political organisation and that the union was taking legal advice on whether to challenge its expulsion in court.
Numsa would convene a special Central Executive Committee meeting on Friday to discuss the way forward. Meanwhile, Jim also hit back at the South African Communist Party's (SACP’s) Blade Nzimande for comparing Numsa to a corpse that will rot and smell if kept on. Vavi stands firm by his stance on Numsa. Dlamini lashes out at unions for sympathising with Numsa:Monday 17 November 2014. Cosatu president S'dumo Dlamini addressed Cosatu's KwaZulu-Natal shop stewards’ council at the Durban City Hall.
(SABC) Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president S'dumo Dlamini has lashed out at affiliates that have suspended their participation in the labour federation's central executive committee (CEC) in solidarity with the expelled National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). Dlamini addressed Cosatu's KwaZulu-Natal shop stewards’ council at the Durban City Hall. He has called on the affiliates to defend and strengthen the embattled labour federation. Cosatu president has urged the eight unions that are supporting Numsa to return to Cosatu. Dlamini also dismissed suggestions that Numsa has been expelled because it did not support the ANC in the 2014 general elections. SACP throws weight behind Cosatu. Satu is not dead: Dlamini:Monday 24 November 2014. Cosatu's President, Sdumo Dlamini.
(Richard Brooks ) The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it has over the last year or so been dealing with many challenges. Last week, the trade union federation put forward a proposal to manage issues in a political approach assisted by the African National Congress’s (ANC) task team led by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. This was done to create social cohesion between all parties concerned including all the affiliated members of Cosatu. Cosatu’s President, Sdumo Dlamini says the hardest part of his job so far has been to expel the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) for violating Cosatu’s constitution. “Numsa has a responsibility to itself and it’s members, we will not sit back and let them walk all over us.
Dlamini has also downplayed suggestions that Cosatu is no longer relative. Dlamini says they are currently engaged in a political process to bring unity and cohesion to enable Cosatu to move on. Lebohang Pheko unpacks the impact of Cosatu-Numsa clash on economy. Baleni’s comments on Numsa’s expulsion described as ‘preposterous’:Monday 10 November 2014. On Saturday morning, CEC members voted on whether Numsa should stay with 33 votes in favour of the expulsion and 24 voting against it.
(REUTERS) The National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa) general secretary Irvin Jim has described National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) general secretary Frans Baleni’s comments that the expulsion of Numsa was unfortunate as ‘preposterous’. Over the weekend Baleni was reported to have said the NUM is ‘deeply hurt by Numsa’s expulsion’. Baleni was addressing NUM's Eastern Cape elective congress in East London. On Saturday morning, CEC members voted on whether Numsa should stay with 33 votes in favour of the expulsion and 24 voting against it. Click below to listen…. Political analyst, Somadoda Fikeni, says signs of factionalism have been evident in Cosatu for a long time. Popcru disgusted at being associated with Numsa:Monday 17 November 2014. Popcru says it supported the expulsion of Numsa from Cosatu.
(SABC) The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) on Monday claimed its members have expressed "disgust" at being associated with the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa). "We wish to state that we supported the expulsion of Numsa from the federation for violating the federation's policy positions and principles," Popcru general secretary Nkosinathi Theledi said in a statement. Numsa was expelled from the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) by a vote of 33 for and 24 against, during a central executive committee meeting earlier this month. Numsa expulsion huge setback: Sanco:Saturday 8 November 2014. Sanco says Numsa's expulsion from Cosatu is a bitter and heavy pill to swallow.
(SABC) The National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa) expulsion from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is a "huge" setback, the SA National Civic Organisation (Sanco) has said. "This development is a bitter and heavy pill to swallow, not only for the workers in Cosatu, but the South African society at large," National Spokesperson, Godfrey Nkosi, has said in a statement. "Millions of South Africans continue to pin their hopes and dreams on Cosatu. Numsa taking Cosatu to court:Friday 31 October 2014. Numsa filed papers in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg earlier on Friday(SABC) National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has taken Congress of South African Trade Union to court again, this time to force the trade union federation to hold a special congress to elect new leadership.
Numsa filed papers in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg earlier on Friday. Numsa and eight other affiliates earlier called for a special congress and per Cosatu constitution it should go ahead. The ceasefire that prevailed within Cosatu ended last week after a strong push within the special Central Executive Committee meeting for federation’s largest affiliate to be booted out. Numsa survived simply because the meeting would have violated process. Numsa pushes for a special national congress:Tuesday 28 October 2014. Numsa general-secretary Irvin Jim. (SABC) The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says it will re-instate its court challenge to force the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) leadership to convene a special national congress. The union suspended the action earlier in the year when it agreed to participate in a facilitation process that the African National Congress (ANC) had spearheaded.
Briefing the media in Johannesburg on Monday, Numsa said it would demand that no Cosatu central executive committee (CEC) be held unless it is to take forward eight affiliates' demand that such a congress is held. Cosatu has so far failed to call the meeting citing monetary, timing and logistical issues. A special CEC is scheduled for November 7, 2014 when Numsa is expected to defend itself against expulsion. Numsa general-secretary Irvin Jim says, "There is no decision as yet that we are not going to attend the CEC. Numsa files urgent interdict to halt Cosatu meeting:Tuesday 4 November 2014. Numsa has gone to the South Gauteng High Court to force Cosatu to give it specific charges to defend its expected expulsion.
(SABC) Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) is going ahead with its Friday Special Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting to decide the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa)'s future. This is despite the federation's largest affiliate Numsa's urgent court interdict against the meeting. Nehawu calls for Numsa’s expulsion from Cosatu:Monday 3 November 2014. Cosatu President Sdumo Dlamini says Numsa is guilty of violating the federation's constitution. (SABC) The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) has publicly called on the Congress of South African Trade Union ( Cosatu) to expel the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) if it fails to give convincing reasons why it should remain part of the federation. Numsa is expected to appear before the federation's Central Executive Committee meeting on Friday to explain why it should not be expelled. Nehawu says Numsa is threatening Cosatu's survival and Nehawu's general secretary Bereng Soke says Cosatu can survive without Numsa.
“We are not naive to the unavoidable consequences that such a decision by the federation shall have on its stability, but this would be part of the numerous challenges that we will have to seriously grapple with as we review our medium term strategy for 2015 as part of the process of preparing for the 12th congress.” Expelling Numsa would be disastrous: Vavi:Friday 24 October 2014. No problem working with Numsa: Malema:Thursday 3 July 2014. Julius Malema says EFF members would continue wearing their attire to remind those in legislatures who they represented. (SABC) The Economic Freedom Fighters has no problem working with National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) as both are fighting for the same cause, EFF leader Julius Malema said on Thursday. "(However) Numsa has a problem working with us," Malema told reporters in Johannesburg.
"We fully support the Numsa strike that says workers must get a living wage. " Malema said his party had tried on numerous occasions to get in touch with Numsa and build a relationship to advance the needs of workers, but with no success. "We have tried making advances to Numsa, but we cannot impose ourselves," he said. Numsa members have been on strike since Tuesday. Malema warned the African National Congress in Gauteng about the treatment of EFF MPLs in the legislature. "Continuation to remove EFF from legislature through unruly methods will lead to instability in this province.
Numsa pushes ahead with forming a socialist movement :Sunday 10 August 2014. Numsa has denied that a political party is being formed. Numsa to form a united front at symposium:Thursday 7 August 2014. Numsa’s International Symposium starts on Thursday. New political movement on the cards:Saturday 15 November 2014. Sikhwebu says although the idea came from Numsa, the union is just assisting in the birth of an alternative party. Numsa, other groups in talks to form a new movement:Sunday 16 November 2014. A national consultative Numsa meeting will be held in December to make a final decision. Killing of KZN Numsa leaders politically motivated: Jim:Saturday 16 August 2014. Man to appear for Numsa triple murder:Monday 17 November 2014.
The 27-year-old man was arrested on Friday.