COSATU is calling on the SACP and CWU to exercise restraint and avoid any public mudslinging
31 August 2016
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is extremely perturbed by the recent public exchanges between our affiliate the Communication Workers Union {CWU} and our ally the South African Communist Party {SACP}.
The federation is calling for calm and restraint from both parties because this exchange of verbal hand grenades and savage invectives will only serve to embolden and also give comfort to our enemies. We shall speedily facilitate a meeting between these organisations to try and help them resolve their issues before they get out of hand.
The Communication Workers Union is our affiliate in good standing, whose primary task is to organise, protect and advance the interests of its members, while the SACP is our vanguard, whose tasks go beyond the workplace.
COSATU is proud of CWU and the work that the union has done in advancing the interests of its members in the sector, where it is organised. This union is amongst the most militant and radical of the federation’s unions; and its reading and understanding of the workplaces and the sector, where it is organised is unmatched. CWU’s uncompromising approach has seen it fearlessly taking on and shaking the centres of both political and economic power in this country on behalf of its members.