The fight against toll roads was the hot topic on Workers Day as Cosatu and the SA Communist Party promised to step up their campaign against the government's plan to implement an e-tolling system in Gauteng.
Cosatu said it would continue its fight against the e-tolling project until the tolls had "finally been scrapped".
The federation also took aim at labour brokers comparing them to "human traffickers" who were making huge profits.
The SA Communist Party also urged the tripartite alliance to unite in the fight against toll highways.
The party said in a May Day statement that there was a risk that the e-tolling issues could be hijacked by the DA, AfriForum and the Automobile Association.
Meanwhile at a workers day rally at Botshabelo stadium in the Free State, President Jacob Zuma called for unity within the tripartite alliance.
He told a modest crowd that the alliance had a huge task of creating unity within its individual partners.
Zuma also urged the different leaders of the alliance to be clear on contentious issues so there was no uncertainty amongst their members.
