2. DON’T ALLOW VODACOM TO CONFUSE YOU
3. VODACOM MAKES THE FIRST CONCESSIONS TO THE WORKERS
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STRIKE? ASK THEM HERE.
The General Secretary, on behalf of the Communication Workers Union, has issued Vodacom with a 48 hour notice of strike on March 7, 2007.
The strike program is as follows:
CWU members will picket at Vodacom facilities throughout the countries during lunch hour.
Our families, friends and allied organizations will be embarking on a warning “consumer strike” in support by switching off their Vodacom cell phones between 13h00 and 13h10.
CWU members will be marching to Vodaworld in Midrand in the hours of the morning.
Our families, friends and allied organizations will be embarking on a “consumer strike” in support by calling any Vodacom number as often as possible and dropping the call after the first ring (before the person picks up). This will have a cost impact for Vodacom but none for the caller.
Members will embark on a work to rule within their stations, to give an opportunity to Vodacom to come to the table. Read about work to rules here.
We will be consulting and discussing the wave of actions stage if Vodacom still refuses to negotiate.
Read the media statement regarding the strike issued by CWU here
2. DON’T ALLOW VODACOM TO CONFUSE YOU
Faced with the power of workers, companies facing strikes attempt to confuse workers. This is typical and should be a surprise to no one. In the following days, Vodacom may be showing letters, holding meetings and telling workers that the upcoming industrial action is illegal, not protected, and other lies. Do not be impressed by these desperate and panicked measures.
Vodacom is not the Government. The only institutions that can make rulings on strikes are the
Perhaps Vodacom believes that we are dogs, that we are barking and that throwing us a morsel off their table will quiet us down. This kind of insult should only strengthen our resolve.
Perhaps the privileges enjoyed by the Executives of Vodacom make them think they know what is best for us as workers. We are not inferior human beings. We, and only we, know what we need as workers. This is why we are demanding to negotiate working conditions through our union and not concessions according to management’s whim.
Forward Comrades! If they will offer this to try to prevent our strike, how much more can we win by not bowing down?
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