COSATU NW condemns the killing of workers at Lonmin
The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the North West has condemned the continued spate of attack on the National Union of Mine workers in the Rustenburg Region.
COSATU has observed that this attack is moving from one mine to the other and now it has moved to Lonmin and nothing is done by the authorities to stop this attack.
What is also painful is that workers looses their lives leaving families without bread winners and therefore hunger and poverty enters those families.
COSATU want to remind AMCU that the constitution of our country allows workers a freedom of association and that right has been extended in the labour relations act which give workers the rights and powers to form their unions, and not to be forced to join some fly-by night unions.
COSATU calls on the police to arrest all those criminals who gather without applying as required by the public gathering act and arrest those who are implicated in the murdering of innocent mine workers.