USA carmaker: we will close down in South Africa, car boss annnounces:
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July 2, 2014 "Economy can go to hell, says National Union of Metal Workers official on first day of strike, with molotov-cocktails thrown at the
Dept of Health and at Vulcania Reinforced Windows in Pretoria, where workers' cars and company windows also were destroyed.
Sapa reported that one of the seven major international car-manufacturers in South Africa - three in the East Cape and the other with a specialized plant in Pretoria, has announced that it will close its operations " because of the unstable labour environment in South Africa."
The 5-month-long strike of platinum-miners was just finished when NUMSA announced its strike.The US threat was repeated by Kaizer Nyatsumba, the chief executive of the Steel & Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa).
He dropped the bombshell on July 1 2014 shortly after receiving a memorandum from Numsa announcing the strike. Nyuatsumba said he received a call from “the chief executive of a major car manufacturing company based in South Africa” who had informed him he was “under ‘considerable pressure’ from his head office in the USA to close operations down in South Africa -- and to move them to a country with a more stable labour dispensation”. Posted on the 'Stakings/Strikes facebook page, which maintains a day-to-day record of the strikes which are
devastating the SA economy:
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The Afrikaans-language facebook page "Stakings" (Strikes) is maintaining a daily updated record of all the strikes in South Africa.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/636908519703799/
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Petrolbombed: Dept of Health, Pretoria, first day of NUMSA strike:
Wed July 2 2014 - http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/gesondheidsdepartement-se-gebou-glo-met-petrolbom-bestook/
Petrolbombed: Vulcania Reinforced Windows Company, Pretoria, on first day of NUMSA strike: Report with video posted by company: On the 2nd of July 2014 NUMSA members participated in a supposed peaceful strike. Where members destroyed Vulcania Reinforcing's windows, cars and attempted to burn their transformer with a petrol bomb. This is an unacceptable act and should never be allowed to happen."
http://youtu.be/KmX6D353ods
ALBERTON: Day one NUMSA strike: Alberton CBD businesses damaged by rampaging, 'peaceful' strikers. Defining the word 'peaceful' in South Africa is a major task these days.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=875446825802491&set=p.875446825802491&type=1&theater
Numsa pickets outside Eskom: 'three-year-contracts equal slavery...'
Sapa2 July, 2014 Members of the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) march on the first day of a nationwide strike in Johannesburg.
Dozens of National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) members picketed outside Eskom's Megawatt Park headquarters in Sunninghill, Johannesburg, on Wednesday morning.
The men and women, wearing red Numsa T-shirts, waved sticks and placards in support of their demand for a 12 percent across the board wage increase.
The also want a R1000 housing allowance, and a standby allowance of R100.
Placards held by the picketers read: "1 year agreement", "3 years agreement equals slavery", and "We demand 30 days minimum time off".
On Tuesday Eskom spokesman Andrew Etzinger said the power utility obtained a court interdict preventing its employees from striking.
It argued that because Eskom was designated an essential service provider workers were prohibited from striking.
On Thursday, Numsa deputy general secretary Karl Cloete said the union was prepared to go on an illegal strike at Eskom."We are quite willing to risk unprotected action. This time around, Numsa members in Eskom shall not be deterred by the so-called essential service provisions behind which Eskom is hiding. This is no empty threat."
Eskom would not disclose what it had offered in the ongoing wage negotiations.
On Wednesday, leaders of the picket ushered Numsa members out of the street along which they were protesting as metro police kept watch.
One of the leaders encouraged picketers to be more lively."You are not moving, you are not singing," he said to those standing at the back of the crowd."Those who do not know how to dance, they can clap their hands," he told them.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2014/07/02/numsa-pickets-outside-eskom-says-those-who-can-t-dance-can-clap![]()
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