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SACTWU sends notice against City of Cape Town

A Section 77 notice was filed by the COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) with Nedlac against the City of Cape Town, its Executive Mayor and its Mayoral Committee recently. City of Cape Town’s unilateral decision to lease out the Good Hope Centre for commercial purposes to an international film company is the reason for this notice. City of Cape Town went ahead with the decision in spite of objections from SACTWU and other community organisations in Cape Town.

The City’s decision also means the SACTWU will not be able to hold its Spring Queen fashion event, a central pillar of the union’s efforts to promote South African-made garments and textile products at the Good Hope Centre; and thus the objection. The union believes that the decision undermines their ‘Save Jobs’ campaign and their efforts to rebuild the clothing and textile industry.

A trade union can call for protest action to promote or defend workers’ socio-economic interests as per section 77 of the Labour Relations Act. Such protest action would be protected, which means workers cannot be disciplined for exercising their right to participate there-in.

Now, Nedlac will try to resolve the dispute between the union and City of Cape Town and consider the merits of the union’s application. The union has indicated that it will protest action that involves its members, which includes mass rallies and placard demonstrations at targeted City of Cape Town offices, solidarity campaigns aimed at the media, stakeholders, the public, employees and suppliers of the City of Cape Town, demonstrations at events sponsored or organised by the City of Cape Town, and others, if the dispute is not resolved.

 
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