Numsa statement on the Court Outcome - for immediate release
6 November 2014
Numsa was forced to court today because COSATU, the Federation, that Numsa helped to found has called a special central executive committee, tomorrow, where it wants to expel us based on a variety of issues that keep changing all the time. It must be noted that the CEC had already voted on our expulsion on 23 October 2014 and is simply going to use this meeting to implement this pre-emptive decision (see report).
The union in the interest of fairness has asked COSATU to indicate why it is being expelled so that it can defend itself but the federation has refused since February 2014 to date. It cannot be in the interests of justice that NUMSA faces charges which includes the words but "not limited to".
Today Numsa emerges victorious as Cosatu for the first time has been forced to declare its case against Numsa in that Numsa must now respond to the following five (5) issues;
1. The call by Numsa that Cosatu should break the Alliance