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SOUTH AFRICA’S Communist Party yesterday called on striking workers at Transnet to stand together to challenge the “entire neoliberal policy agenda.”
The SACP said that it stood in solidarity with the striking workers in the exercise of their collective bargaining rights.
Strikes by over 40,000 members of both the South African Transport & Allied Workers Union (Satawu) and the United National Transport Union have shut down critical import and export infrastructure at the state-owned rail, port and pipeline company.
SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila said: “The SACP applauds Satawu and the other trade unions it has forged solidarity with for including the demands against privatisation and retrenchments in the bargaining process.”
The party called on trade unions at Transnet to expand their campaign “to tackle the entire neoliberal policy agenda,” which, it said, “seeks to insinuate private profit-driven competition against Transnet in its rail infrastructure network.
“The neoliberal agenda will impact negatively on the Transnet workers who will be affected,” the SACP said.
Unions have rejected a 4.5 per cent pay offer by the employer and are looking for a pay rise nearer to the South African consumer inflation rate of 7.6 per cent.
