Numsa won’t appeal Cosatu axing

06/08/2010 Irvin Jim General Secretary of NUMSA during a media statement on the planned Auto Industry strike action held at their offices in JHB. (564) Photo: Leon Nicholas

06/08/2010 Irvin Jim General Secretary of NUMSA during a media statement on the planned Auto Industry strike action held at their offices in JHB. (564) Photo: Leon Nicholas

Published Nov 9, 2015

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Johannesburg - The Metalworkers Union of SA (Numsa) has announced it will not appeal its dismissal from Cosatu at the federation’s congress in two weeks.

The union, which had gone through many lengths to return to the fold, said at a press briefing in Johannesburg on Monday that its efforts to “recapture” Cosatu had been in vain.

Numsa held its national executive committee meeting over the weekend and the union’s nine provinces unanimously agreed to also abandon all court proceedings challenging its axing from Cosatu a year ago.

“There is no point in appealing to a Cosatu National Congress which will, like the Cosatu Special National Congress, exclude the genuinely elected Cosatu General Secretary and Numsa.

"We are more than convinced, as we were in relation to the July 2015 Cosatu SNC that the Cosatu November 2015 National congress shall be dominated by hand-picked delegates, and a stage-managed “democratic arrangement” with votes by show of hands,” said Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim.

The union’s move will likely leave those unions within Cosatu in support of its reinstatement in limbo.

The unions include the Food and Allied Workers Union, which confirmed it would push for the matter to be included on the congress agenda.

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