EFFSC and workers unhappy with Nehawu involvement on TUT task team

28 January 2016 - 14:42 By TMG Digital

The Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) on Thursday took credit for activities remaining suspended on the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Tshwane Campus. The student wing along with workers “have intensified their struggle for emancipation of workers from slavery of service providers who are politically connected and have influence on the management of TUT”.One of the sticking points for the EFFSC and workers appeared to be the involvement of National Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) representatives on a task team on insourcing.The EFFSC said it wants the team to “be as inclusive and equally representative as possible”‚ and said some of the Nehawu representatives “are highly unpopular amongst workers”.It alleged that the union’s shop stewards “are part of management and benefit from active contracts and as such they have conflicting interest even at the table of negotiations…they have sold out”.“Of primary concern amongst workers is that Nehawu representatives have for years ignored them each time they went to ask for their intervention in a number of worker related challenges and struggles‚” the EFFSC said.“Additionally‚ workers feel that there would not be discussions taking place without their involvement‚ inputs and opinion. They are saying that ‘No future for us‚ without us’ because only the EFFSC has acknowledged; accompanied and stood side by side with them in their struggle.”A notice on TUT’s wbsite confirmed that “activities remain suspended” at TUT’s Pretoria campuses‚ but also boasted that “good progress has been made in talks about the insourcing of services today‚ however an agreement has not yet been reached”...

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