The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is calling on government to release promised funding for the implementation of the business rescue plan at the South African (SA) Post Office.
This follows an announcement by business rescue practitioners that they intend to pursue liquidation, despite government’s earlier commitment of R3.8 billion ($228 billion) to support the turnaround plan.
The union says workers are prepared to take to the streets if the liquidation proceeds.
CWU’s Nathan Bowers says organised labour will mobilise against the move.
Bowers says, “The national leadership of the CWU will meet to discuss our response. And already, we are saying that we are going to go to the streets, our workers are ready to take action. There is no way that the Communication Workers Union is going to allow that the People’s Post Office goes down. After this meeting tonight, we are definitely going to meet with Congress of South African Trade Unions, we are going to meet with South African National Civic Organisation so that we are able then to mobilise our workers to the streets, we are going to mobilise the communities to the streets.”
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