{"id":14760,"date":"2012-09-19T04:37:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-top-unions-group-fears-for-its-future\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:36","slug":"s-africas-top-unions-group-fears-for-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-top-unions-group-fears-for-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s top unions group fears for its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* General secretary of COSATU says labour group must renew<br \/>\nitself<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Despite acrimony, COSATU dependent on ANC rule<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S.Africa labour market seen weakened by COSATU-friendly<br \/>\nlaws<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; A top South African labour<br \/>\nleader urged a fresh start for the country&#8217;s biggest unions on<br \/>\nTuesday, saying change was needed in the wake of recent violence<br \/>\nand the challenge posed by the rise of the militant AMCU union.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forty-five miners died in clashes between competing unions<br \/>\nlast month, including 34 miners shot dead by police in the<br \/>\ndeadliest security incident since the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a shift in our mindset to recognise that the labour<br \/>\nmovement needs to renew itself and re-establish its very purpose<br \/>\nof existence,&#8221; Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the<br \/>\nCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), told the<br \/>\ngroup&#8217;s national congress.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we lose touch with our members&#8217; concerns, there is the<br \/>\ndanger of finding ourselves &#8230;outflanked by the new independent<br \/>\nunions which are emerging as a result of dissatisfaction from<br \/>\nthe shop floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A member of the country&#8217;s African National Congress-led<br \/>\n(ANC) ruling alliance, COSATU has used thuggish behaviour in<br \/>\nlabour disputes in the past but now finds itself the target of<br \/>\nintimidation from rivals.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* General secretary of COSATU says labour group must renew itself * Despite acrimony, COSATU dependent on ANC rule * S.Africa labour market seen weakened by COSATU-friendly laws By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; A top South African labour leader urged a fresh start for the country&#8217;s biggest unions on Tuesday, saying change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}