Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NUMSA: it’s a democratic right to embark on a picket



Loyiso Langeni
21 May 2013

he National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said it will uphold the court decision after Mercedes-Benz successfully interdicted an unprotected strike in East London. 

The workers are have embarked on lunch hour pickets which resulted in a full blown strike last week Friday.

 Numsa National Treasurer Mphumzi Maqungo said we call on the management to re-open doors of engagement in order to settle the dispute.

Maqungo added that we will never allow our members to be bullied for exercising their democratic right to embark on a picket.

“The strike action was imposed on them after serious provocation and threats by the employer to subject all workers into a Kangaroo style Disciplinary process for picketing” added Maqungo.

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