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The Federation of Unions of South Africa is threatening to report South Africa to the International Labour Organisation regarding the erosion of the right to collective bargaining.
This followed this week’s ruling in the Labour Court dismissing a joint legal action by Fedusa’s affiliates to force the government to honour a clause in the 2018 collective bargaining wage agreement.
The Court said forcing the government to comply with the agreement would be unlawful in terms of sub-sections 213 and 215 of the Constitution after the Government said it could not honour the wage agreements.
However, FEDUSA believed that the ruling could only be understood as denying deserved public servants and workers holistically, the right to collective bargaining, which is a constitutionally enshrined right.
The Federation said its public-sector unions were seriously considering appealing the matter with the Constitutional Court.
Fedusa said the very essence of the judgement signifies and condones grand scale corruption in its worst form, robbing deserving public servants of their livelihoods as Government continues to plead poverty, yet deliberately delays arresting and recovering looted and stolen state funds from known perpetrators.
It said it would join other like-minded labour federations in the country in ensuring that we report South Africa to the ILO regarding the erosion of the right to collective bargaining.”
