THE national executive committee of the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) on Sunday confirmed it had suspended four of its national office bearers with immediate effect.
The four national office bearers, who include SAFTU president Mac Chavalala, were suspended for their role in seeking to illegally suspend Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi.
SAFTU said the four abused their powers and brought the union federation into disrepute.
The union federation said their decision to place Vavi on suspension was unconstitutional, arguing that only SAFTU’s NEC and its central committee had the powers to suspend the general secretary.
Vavi, who is general secretary of the federation, told the media this week that Irvin Jim, head of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), was behind the “trumped-up charges” that his Saftu colleagues have cited as reasons to suspend him.
Vavi, former general secretary of the Cosatu trade union federation, said his
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