The Mpumalanga branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday embarked on numerous marches across the province to commemorate the World Day for Decent Work, which also led to the handing over of a memorandum of demands to Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane.
World Day for Decent Work is marked to address factors that impede workers’ rights, such as conditions of employment, safety and all other issues related to their physical and mental integrity in the workplace.
Among the grievances raised by workers were corruption, job losses and retrenchment, the plight of farm workers and farm dwellers, as well as the informalisation of work through as labour brokering and casualisation.
Issues of land restitution and settlement, the persistent upsurge of the rate of poverty, unemployment, inequality, and the provision of quality service delivery in municipalities and quality health care for all were also part of the agenda.
The organised labour union also demanded that
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