More Fire for the People
13th April 2007, 16:28
From News & Letters:
Efforts to form new kinds of unions based on casual and temporary workers have also emerged, such as Sikhula Sonke (We Grow Together). It is "a social movement labor union." It was started in the Western Cape by women employed as seasonal farm laborers in response to the failure of traditional unions to deal with casual workers (permanent workers consist of 92% of COSATU’s membership). Sikhula Sonke deals not only with workplace issues but also opposes evictions, fights for access to HIV/AIDS drugs, and calls for an end to school fees. Like many of the new social movements, it targets not just conditions in the workplace but also the spaces of intersection between work and everyday life.
And from their website (http://www.sikhulasonke.org.za/) [ about us: values ]: All children have the right to love, care and a decent pre-school education;
Women are uniquely placed to fulfil this role for children, and that they should receive support, encouragement and skills development;
All parents should be informed about Early Childhood Development so that they can also nurture and enhance the development of their own children and
If we all work togethor we can positively impact the present and the future of our beautiful country and it's wonderful people.
The News & Letters article makes them sound like an anti-capitalist organisation but their website states that they are a religious group that advocates education for children. Not that that's bad but I'd like to hear more on this group and see what type of organisation they really are.
Efforts to form new kinds of unions based on casual and temporary workers have also emerged, such as Sikhula Sonke (We Grow Together). It is "a social movement labor union." It was started in the Western Cape by women employed as seasonal farm laborers in response to the failure of traditional unions to deal with casual workers (permanent workers consist of 92% of COSATU’s membership). Sikhula Sonke deals not only with workplace issues but also opposes evictions, fights for access to HIV/AIDS drugs, and calls for an end to school fees. Like many of the new social movements, it targets not just conditions in the workplace but also the spaces of intersection between work and everyday life.
And from their website (http://www.sikhulasonke.org.za/) [ about us: values ]: All children have the right to love, care and a decent pre-school education;
Women are uniquely placed to fulfil this role for children, and that they should receive support, encouragement and skills development;
All parents should be informed about Early Childhood Development so that they can also nurture and enhance the development of their own children and
If we all work togethor we can positively impact the present and the future of our beautiful country and it's wonderful people.
The News & Letters article makes them sound like an anti-capitalist organisation but their website states that they are a religious group that advocates education for children. Not that that's bad but I'd like to hear more on this group and see what type of organisation they really are.