A rich man's dog lives better than the producers of his wealth - the workers!
The assassinated Mozambique President Samora Machel once remarked, "The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built".
These immortal words are engraved in the hearts and minds of the cheaply-paid, over-exploited workers of our country. The words remain relevant today, during the very serious ideological and political offensive by capitalist bosses and their allies in the state and media, aiming to undermine collective bargaining and the will of trade unions.
Unions' will to negotiate for decent wages for our members is the main way to bridge South Africa's scandalous socio-economic and neo-apartheid faults-lines.
The triple crises of poverty, unemployment and inequality ravaging our working-class communities, after 19 years of democracy, leave us as the world's leading large country in both inequality and worker anger, as measured last month by the World Economic Forum. That agency ranked our SA workers first out of 148 country competitors in militancy, for the second year in a row.
Still, the cheap blackmail by monopoly car manufacturer BMW to disinvest should be unmasked. Chris Moerdyk, the former BMW public relations officer, has made some revealing comments about BMW's hot rhetoric.