Cosatu Lambasts Finance Minister Tito Mboweni For Failing To Meet Leaders Of Trade Union Federations

NYAKALLO TEFU

COSATU president Zingiswa Losi on Wednesday criticised Finance Minister Tito Mboweni for failing to meet with workers and leaders of SA’s major trade union federations, saying he should resign if he does not want to engage with the labour movement.

Losi was speaking in Pretoria outside the offices of the National Treasury during the labour federation’s national strike in which hundreds of workers delivered a memorandum to three departments.

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and Labour and Employment Minister Thulas Nxesi accepted the memorandum and apologised for Mboweni and his deputy David Masondo, who couldn’t make it as they were at a Cabinet Lekgotla which was discussing the budget.

“Treasury is part of government. The money that they are managing and handling, is money that is contributed by workers through their taxes. So, we cannot have a minister who is going to bow to the pressures of the IMF