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Numsa won't participate in Cosatu strike─── 11:08 Sun, 24 Sep 2017
Johannesburg - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) will not support the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (Cosatu) calls for a socio-economic strike next Wednesday September 27.
Numsa general secretary, Irvin Jim, said in a statement that Cosatu calling on all workers to go on strike against state capture and corruption is ironic as the federation is very much a part of the system of ‘kleptocracy’ and ‘neopatrimonialism’ which has captured the ANC.
Numsa views the calls for a socio-economic strike against the very government which Cosatu was in alliance with, as nothing more than the federation's "desperate attempt to remain relevant".
Numsa was expelled from Cosatu and is now an affiliate of the recently formed South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu).
They called on their members not to participate in the strike.
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