WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-06-12 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[No surprises here. The company I work for has an emergency number which we can phone and they will warn us if it is dangerous to enter the Johannesburg CBD due to the strikes. We’ve also been warned not to leave our offices. So far, I’ve seen very little activity in Johannesburg CBD. But you never know when the communist bastards will pitch up and smash things. Wouldn’t it be lovely to just GUN THEM DOWN? I dream on… Jan]
The public sector strike could soon “turn violent”, Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general-secretary Zwelenzima Vavi warned on Monday.
Unions did not want the strike to continue unnecessarily, he told the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) national congress in Cape Town.
“We’re quite aware of the consequences of allowing the strike to prolong to the second and to the third week,” he said.
“Workers will be soon angry, they will be frustrated, and they will see anybody going to work, irrespective of how genuine their reasons are, as basically betraying their cause.
“And very soon the strike will turn violent.
“We don’t want that, and that is why we say to the government, our door is open [for more talks] on Monday afternoon.”
Vavi said the 7.25 percent pay rise put forward by mediators, which has met with approval from government, was not substantially different from the six percent the government had been offering for weeks.
“I think that the union movement is ready to engage but on the basis that [there] is a serious offer placed on the table by the government,” he said.
He said unions had revised their demands from 12 to 10 percent while the government was increasing its offer by barely noticeable increments.
He called for more decisive movement on the employer’s part.
“The government’s response to that is to just continuously increase the offer by 0.2, 0.5, 0.2 [percent]. That’s not how you act in order to resolve any strike action..”
He hoped the government would act decisively to avoid a planned general strike on Wednesday in support of the public sector unions.
Earlier, Popcru president Zizamele Cebekhulu told Sapa at the congress that police and prison staff would join the strike if the wage dispute was not resolved.
He said Popcru would give negotiators a week to come to an agreement.
“If they fail to solve it, we’re going to strike.”
He said Popcru members were also workers, concerned about their salaries, and did not want the dispute to go on forever.
“We’re not sitting here because we’re afraid to join them, but we’re saying we look at a variety of matters, protection of our society, the current rate of crime, and we cannot give criminals a free lunch over our communities.”
It was only respect for the safety and security of South Africans that was holding Popcru back, he said.
Popcru has 120 000 members, just over half of them in the police.
Police and prison staff are classed as essential services workers, and are barred by law from going on strike. – Sapa
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