'There is no counterweight in society if you have cowards in business. You don’t have to keel over every time someone stands up and says ”I disagree”, says Papenfus.  ‘n Persverklaring wat uitgereik is deur Neasa (Nasionale Werkgewers Assosiasie van Suid Afrika), as waarskuwing aan SEIFSA (Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa), dat hulle aanhoudende toegewings aan NUMSA en ander vakbonde, geen sukses behaal nie en dat hulle aanhoudende toegewings die bedryf in die vergetelheid in onderhandel, word heelhartig deur die AVP ondersteun! Hierdie uiters relevante benadering van NEASA behoort ook uitgebrei te word na georganiseerde landbou wat besig is om Suid Afrika onder die Afrikanervolk uit te onderhandel onder die voorwendsel dat hulle “volhoubare voedsel produksie” as verantwoordelikheid het. Die noodsaaklikheid vir verset en verdediging vir die regmatige besitreg van ons boere, wat met sweet en bloed hulle eiendomme bekom, ontwikkel en bedryf en nou as gevolg van die gebrek aan ‘n behoorlike landbou beleid, finansieel beleër is, word ondergeskik gestel aan fiktiewe aannames wat in lyn is met internasionale imperialistiese vereistes om toe te gee om konfrontasie te vermy.

Behalwe dat die toegewings ‘n erkenning is dat die swartes ‘n “reg” het wat as verdere gevolg ook die betekenis inhou dat die Afrikanervolk grond onregmatig bekom en besit, word onderhandelinge oor grondeise die instrument waarmee produksie in die ban gedoen word, in teenstelling met die verantwoordelikheid wat georganiseerde landbou behoort na te streef om hulle lede daarvan te vrywaar deur behoorlike organisering van weerstand teen hierdie onsinnigheid waarvoor daar géén regverdiging bestaan nie, behalwe deur die toegewings van die onderhandelaars! In wie se belang tree hulle in werklikheid op?

METAL INDUSTRY

NEASA warns SEIFSA

Dear NEASA member

 

This is a press release that NEASA issued following reports that NUMSA rejected SEIFSA?s 10 percent wage offer.

The National Employers Association of South Africa (NEASA) has taken note of news reports indicating that SEIFSA?s latest wage offer of 10% has been rejected. SEIFSA has offered NUMSA and other trade unions a three year deal with increases amounting to 10, 9.5 and 9% on the lowest grades. SEIFSA repeatedly went back to the unions with improved offers, in the process giving away each and every demand they put on the negotiating table, thus far without any success.

 

NEASA, representing 3000 mainly small and medium business in the Metal Industry, is still offering 8%, subject to an agreement on a lower entry level wage in respect of the lowest grade, as well as an arrangement which will make the Industry more flexible. Thus far NUMSA has refused to engage at all on these issues.

 

“I am saying this to SEIFSA: this is your test. South Africa is a spectator in a drama, day by day observing how you negotiate this Industry into extinction. You have already given away increases respectively 3.4, 2.9 and 2.4% above the inflation rate for three years, with nothing in return. You must be extremely disappointed that your negotiating partner, NUMSA, is doing this to you,” says Gerhard Papenfus, NEASA Chief Executive.

 

“For two decades your weak approach has done irreparable damage to this Industry. You were doing this whilst you represented less than 20% of the employers in the Metal Industry, thus a hopeless minority organisation, but you did this merely because you had the support of trade unions and big business, or rather yielded under the pressure of both. In this process you have betrayed the interests of small business,” Papenfus said.

 

An arbitration, following a dispute declared by SEIFSA against NEASA, continues on 4 August 2014. The outcome that SEIFSA wants is a dispensation which weakens the voice of SMME's serving on the Metal Industry Bargaining Council.

 

“In pleasing NUMSA and big business you have turned against SMME's in South Africa. You have in fact also turned against the interests of the economy and the poor which cannot find work in this Industry”, Papenfus said.

 

“I wish to remind you of what Winston Churchill once said: 'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last'. I also wish to remind you of a more recent remark by former Planning Minister Trevor Manuel: 'There is no counterweight in society if you have cowards in business. You don’t have to keel over every time someone stands up and says ”I disagree”, says Papenfus. 

 

Papenfus says NEASA will not stand by passively while SEIFSA throws away the future of SMME?s, the Industry and the economy at the negotiating table.

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Sya van der Walt-Potgieter

Media Liaison

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