SOUTH African Communist Party (SACP) secretary-general Solly Mapaila has urged unity between trade unions during the Young Communist League of South Africa’s (YCL’s) sixth National Congress.
He said unions across the economy should unite in confronting the neoliberal policy trajectory in the country.
“We want to take this opportunity to reiterate our call for these unions to convene a joint consultative conference to discuss broadly, the conditions of the workers. We will join both wider trade consultative conference and the joint programme of action that may arise out of these engagements,” he said.
Workers in South Africa still faced difficult challenges, he said, and accused big capital of attacking workers by denying them their basic rights and by exploiting them unabatedly.
He added that government had also reneged on collective bargaining agreements with workers which had resulted in wage pickets across the country.
Mapaila pointed out that many companies across the world were retrenching workers.
“We must
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