[A few days ago, I said there was a story the Mass Media never touches – and it is about the violence which the Trade Unions use against Blacks who don’t want to strike. It appears this time there were two stories so far in the S.African media, which did touch on this aspect.

The one story is below. The other was reported in various newspapers. It was about a truck driver being murdered by strikers. In this article below, you will see mention of threats to beat Blacks who don’t want to take part in the strikes. This is how the real mechanism of the communists is put into action. Jan]

The original title of this was: ‘Strike or we’ll hurt you’

Stellenbosch – Striking municipal workers threatened on Thursday to violently force working colleagues into taking part in the strike.

Motorists were met by a strong police presence on the road between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek where about 200 chanting members of the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), armed with knobkierries, blocked the road during peak traffic.

The workers formed part of the union’s national strike after its salary negotiations with the South African Association for Local Governments (Salga) reached a deadlock.

Samwu demands a salary hike of 8%, while Salga is offering 6% plus an additional 1.5% increase on February 1 for workers who earn less than R4 792 a month.

Contingent

A large police contingent kept an eye on striking workers protesting outside the Stellenbosch municipality’s Beltana farm after municipal manager Bruce Kannemeyer had ordered that the gates be locked.

Kannemeyer said he had given the order to keep the striking workers from interfering with those who were doing their jobs.

“On Wednesday, I saw them preventing two municipal vehicles from leaving the premises.

“We agreed with Samwu in advance that we would respect their right to strike as long as they didn’t intimidate the other workers.

“There are workers who share the strikers’ grudges, but, because of their financial position, can’t afford to forfeit a day’s pay.”

Samwu representative Raymond Charles told the Stellenbosch strikers that those who worked were undermining the union’s efforts to negotiate better wages.

Threatened

He also apparently threatened working colleagues and contract workers who didn’t belong to the union.

“This is a friendly warning. If we catch you working, your body will hurt. Private workers also must know we will not allow them to work after-hours or at weekends.”

In Cluver Road, around the corner from the workfarm, rubbish was still lying in the streets where strikers had overturned dustbins on Wednesday.

The strikers eventually gained entrance to the farm after a small group of them crawled through the fencing.

When security guards opened the gates to throw them out, the rest streamed onto the premises.

Despite threats to overturn dustbins in the town’s streets, the group dispersed peacefully at about 11:30.

Charles said the strikers would report for work on Monday, but would not necessarily do anything.

Directives

“We will wait for directives from the national management. If they haven’t reached an acceptable agreement with Salga, our strike will continue.”

Meanwhile, Kannemeyer said action would be taken against strikers who intimidated others.

He said: “We cannot act against the union as a body, but against members.

“We have asked workers who are intimidated to identify the troublemakers.

“As soon as the strike is over, we will take steps against the guilty ones, that is for sure.

“The same applies to those who are caught damaging property or littering on purpose.”

Source: News24.Com
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…/p>