Taking COSATU Today Forward, 15 June 2022 #16June
Norman Mampane
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Taking COSATU Today Forward
‘Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense’-Maoo
Our side of the story
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
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the Back to Basics Campaign, Consolidate the Struggle for the NDR and Advance the Struggle for Socialism’
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Contents
- Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- NUM Youth Structure to embark on a march to Union Buildings this coming Saturday
- South Africa
Ø Mpumalanga Treasury on staff verification of over 80 000 employees in the provincial government
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- ILO Governing Body demands end to Russian aggression in Ukraine
Workers’ Parliament-Back2Basics
NUM Youth Structure to embark on a march to Union Buildings this coming Saturday
Sandra Maseko: NUM Youth Structure Acting National Secretary, 14 June 2022
The National Union of Mineworkers Youth Structure (NUMYS) will embark on a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria this coming Saturday on the 18th of June 2022. The march will aim to address the following issues:
1. No to the closure of mines and power stations.
2. Persistent high unemployment and retrenchments
3.Lack of Social and Labour Plans implementation by the mining companies
4. Arrogant employers through wage negotiations
5. Petrol Hike
The decision to march to the Union Buildings was taken recently by the NUM Youth Structure at its National Youth Committee meeting at EBMTC Midrand. This year marks 46 years since the student uprising of 1976 and 28 years in a democratic South Africa. 46 years later the youth of this country finds itself in a state of a disaster which demands confrontation to change the reality faced by young people in this country.
"We can't commemorate June 16 this year the same way we did over the past years, we need to fight for a better life for our generation," said Sandra Maseko, NUM Youth Structure Acting National Secretary.
The memorandum will be handed to the Minister of Minerals Resources and Energy (DMRE), Minister of Labour and Employment as well as the office of the Presidency led by his excellency Cyril Ramaphosa. We, therefore, call on all NUM Regions, COSATU Young Workers, ANCYL, COSAS, YCL, SASCO and the Youth in our communities to come out in numbers to support this demonstration to liberate ourselves from this onslaught. Frantz Fanon said, "Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it".
We will assemble at Burgers Park on the corner of Andries and Jacob Mare Streets in Pretoria at 10 am.
South Africa
Mpumalanga Treasury on staff verification of over 80 000 employees in the provincial government
14 Jun 2022
Mpumalanga Treasury embark on staff verification for over 80 000 employees in the provincial government
The Provincial Treasury is undertaking a process to verify all employees on the Personal and Salary System within the Mpumalanga Provincial Government.
The staff verification, which is conducted by means of biometric fingerprint system, aims to establish the authenticity of employees against the PERSAL system.
There's currently 83.187 thousand employees on the provincial government's persal system, with projected expenditure of R33.6 billion for the year ending 31 March 2023.
The verification process commenced in March and it is anticipated to be completed in the second quarter of 2022.
Speaking during the tabling of Provincial Treasury’s Budget Vote on Tuesday, (14 June 2022) MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Mr Vusi Mkhatshwa said the staff verification project is one of the expenditure control measures aimed to ensure the credibility of the provincial budget management.
“The principal objective of this exercise is to ensure that public funds are paid to existing personnel who are contributing to the functioning of the provincial government,” said MEC Mkhatshwa.
The project is in line with the section 18 of the Public Finance Management Act, No. 1 of 1999 which requires the Provincial Treasury to, amongst others, promote and enforce transparency and effective management in respect of revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities of provincial departments and provincial public entities.
The budget appropriated to the Provincial Treasury for the 2022/23 financial year is Five Hundred and Sixty-Six million, Five Hundred and Forty-Eight Thousand Rand (R566 548).
The budget is allocated to the four
programmes as follows:
Programme 1: Administration is receiving R127.8 million
Programme 2: Sustainable Resource Management is allocated R93.1 million Programme 3: Assets & Liabilities Management gets R291.7 million Programme 4: Financial Governance receives R53.8 million
For more information, please contact Letshela Jonas on 013 766 4323 / 079 5000 154
Province:
Issued by: Mpumalanga Treasury
International-Solidarity
ILO Governing Body demands end to Russian aggression in Ukraine
14 June 2022
The Governing Body of the International Labour Organization considered a number of issues, including the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the situation in Myanmar, Belarus and Venezuela, and elected new officers.
GENEVA
(ILO News) – The 345th
session of the Governing Body of
the International Labour Organization (ILO) reiterated
its call for the Russian Federation to
immediately and unconditionally cease its aggression against Ukraine. It requested the ILO Director-General to prepare for consideration at the Governing Body’s 346th Session, in October–November 2022, detailed options for the possible relocation of the ILO’s
Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which is currently based in Moscow.
The Governing Body decided to include on the agenda of its 346th session an item on the consideration of any further measures, including those foreseen in the ILO’s Constitution, to secure compliance by the Government of Belarus with the recommendations of
the 2004 Commission of Inquiry, which looked at Belarus’s observance of the ILO
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) .
They requested the ILO Director-General to prepare a report on the issue.
The situation
in Myanmar was discussed and
the Governing Body appointed the three
independent members of the Commission of Inquiry that
has been set up to examine the non-observance of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Forced
Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) .
Turning
to Venezuela, the Governing Body took note of progress concerning the operation of the social dialogue forum in giving effect to the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, issued in 2019, and agreed
to continue collaborating with the Government and social partners on
the effective application of international labour standards. It requested the Director-General to submit a report to its next session.
The Governing Body adopted the report
of the Committee on Freedom of Association .
The
Governing Body elected Claudia Fuentes-Julio, the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations in Geneva as its new Chairperson and she will discharge this responsibility for 12 months.
Renata Hornung-Draus, from Germany, was re-elected as Employers’ Vice-Chairperson of the Governing Body and Catelene Passchier, from the Netherlands, was re-elected as Workers’ Vice-Chairperson.
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
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