Введение
Южноафриканский профсоюз транспортных и союзных работников (SATAWU) – это профсоюз в Южной Африке. В 2018 году SATAWU провел национальный конгресс, будучи обязанным это сделать решением суда 2017 года. Это было связано с тем, что тогдашнее руководство не соблюдало Конституцию SATAWU и полностью игнорировало финансовую подотчетность, включая членские взносы, что привело к неэффективному управлению средствами и, как следствие:
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
1) Задержкам в выплате заработной платы сотрудникам и арендной платы за офисы.
2) Неуплате членских взносов COSATU.
3) Несоблюдению обязательных требований, таких как представление аудированных финансовых отчетов в Департамент занятости и труда через офис регистратора, а также подача налоговых деклараций в SARS для получения льгот, поскольку мы являемся некоммерческой организацией в соответствии с законодательством.
4) Необоснованному увольнению сотрудников и исключению руководителей низового звена, которые придерживались Конституции SATAWU и требовали подотчетности и прозрачности в управлении организацией.
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
К 2022 году действующие национальные должностные лица (НОБ) не выполнили требования Конституции SATAWU, не созывая структурные совещания, такие как Центральный исполнительный комитет (ЦИК) – высшая структура принятия решений между национальными конгрессами, и Финансовый комитет (ФИНКОМ), который ежеквартально составляет бюджет и распределяет средства на деятельность профсоюза. НОБ фактически осуществляли микроменеджмент организации, пока в июне 2022 года в Департамент занятости и труда (DoEL) и к регистратору не была подана жалоба об этих нарушениях в работе организации. Это вынудило НОБ созвать первый ЦИК с момента их избрания в 2018 году, хотя Конституция SATAWU требует проведения не менее трех таких заседаний в год. После этого сентябрьского заседания ЦИК стало ясно, что НОБ не только усугубили управление организацией, но и продолжили повторять неудачи предыдущих НОБ, перечисленные выше:
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
1) Они в одностороннем порядке повысили заработную плату руководящего аппарата, а именно Генерального секретаря и его заместителя, а также их пособия на аренду и пособия для лидеров рабочих в НОБ.
2) Они создали инвестиционные подразделения от имени организации и назначили себя директорами без одобрения ЦИК.
3) За время пребывания нынешних НОБ в должности численность членов профсоюза сократилась с 101 458 человек (по данным отчета Национального конгресса 2018 года) до 60 000 человек из-за их неэффективного руководства.
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
**Исключения**
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
Как вам известно, в декабре 2023 года, через два месяца после истечения срока их полномочий, вместо созыва Национального конгресса в соответствии с конституционным мандатом, они созвали ЦИК после того, как в сентябре 2023 года в DoEL и к регистратору была отправлена вторая жалоба, которая вынудила их действовать. На этом так называемом заседании ЦИК было принято решение об исключении более 22 руководителей низового звена, которые требовали подотчетности и соблюдения Конституции SATAWU, поскольку структурные совещания, такие как PEC, не проводились, и они могли бы стать платформой для выражения нашего недовольства положением дел в организации.
Trade union in South Africa
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to mismanagement of funds resulting into:
1) Late payments of staff members salaries and office rentals
2) None payment of COSATU affiliation fees and
3) None compliance to statutory obligations such as, submission of audited financial statements to the Department of Employment and Labour through the office of the Registrar and also filing the tax returns to SARS for exemption purposes since we are a non profit organization according to the legislations. 4) Unfairly dismissing staff members and the expelling of shopstewards who upheld the SATAWU CONSTITUTION and demanded accountability and transparency in the administration of the organization. Fast forward to 2022, the current National Office Bearers had failed to comply with the SATAWU CONSTITUTION by not calling the structural meetings like the Central Executive Committee, CEC ( This is the highest decision structure between National congresses), Finance Committee, FINCOM, which makes budgets and allocates funds for union activities on a quarterly basis per year. The NOBs basically micromanaged the organization until there was a complaint filed in June 2022 with the DoEL, the Registrar regarding these anomalies in the running of the organization and this compelled the NOBs to call the first CEC since their election in 2018 whilst the SATAWU CONSTITUTION expects them to call at least 3 of these meetings per year. It was after this Sep'22 CEC that the agenda of the NOBs became clear and apparent in that not only did they worsen the administration of the organization and continued to perpetuate the failures, as listed above, of the previous NOBs:
1)They have unilaterally increased the salaries of the Secretariat office, i. e, the General Secretary and his deputy, and also their allowances for rentals and those for the worker leaders in the NOBC. 2) They established investment arms on behalf of the organization and appointed themselves as directors without the approval of the CEC. 3) During the current NOBs tenure the membership dropped from 101 458 as per the 2018 National Congress report to 60 000 due their ineffective leadership. THE EXPULSIONS
As you may be aware that in December 2023, two months after their term of office expired instead of convening a National Congress as per Constitutional mandate, they convened a CEC after a second complaint was sent to the DoEL, the Registrar in September 2023 which forced them to act. In the 'so called' CEC they resolved the expel more than 22 shopstewards who demanded accountability and compliance of the SATAWU CONSTITUTION since structural meetings like the PECs were not being held and these would have been platform for us to ventilate our dissatisfactions on the status of the organization.
История
В конце 1990-х годов Южноафриканский союз железных дорог и портов (SARHWU) и Союз работников транспорта и общего хозяйства (TGWU) были аффилированными членами Конгресса южноафриканских профсоюзов и вели продолжительные переговоры о возможном слиянии. В декабре 1998 года Черный профсоюз работников Транснета и Союз союзных работников Транснета объединились с SARHWU, который затем сменил название на "Южноафриканский профсоюз транспортных и союзных работников". 18 мая 2000 года TGWU окончательно объединился с этим профсоюзом, образовав новое объединение, которое также было названо SATAWU. В 2012 году в профсоюзе произошел раскол, когда бывший президент Эфраим Мфахела возглавил примерно половину членов в новое Национальное транспортное движение. Дальнейший раскол в 2015 году привел к созданию Демократизированного профсоюза транспортной логистики и союзных работников. SATAWU является аффилированным членом COSATU и Международной федерации транспортных работников.
In the late 1990s, the South African Railways and Harbours Union (SARHWU) and Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) were both affiliates of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and undertook lengthy negotiations on a potential merger. In December 1998, the Black Trade Union of Transnet Workers and the Transnet Allied Trade Union merged into SARWHU, which renamed itself as the "South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union". On 18 May 2000, the TGWU finally merged with this union, forming a new entity, which was also named SATAWU. The union suffered a split in 2012, when former president Ephraim Mphahlela led around half the membership into the new National Transport Movement. A further split in 2015 led to the founding of the Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers Union. SATAWU is an affiliate of the COSATU and the International Transport Workers' Federation.
Китайский корабль отказался от оружия
В мае 2008 года судно "Ань Юэ Цзян" из Китайской Народной Республики, перевозившее большое количество оружия китайского производства, предназначенного для Зимбабве, пришвартовалось в порту Дурбана; однако докеры, все являвшиеся членами SATAWU, отказались выгружать груз с судна. SATAWU и COSATU поддержали отказ от разгрузки, а профсоюзные федерации других стран южной Африки также отказались разгружать судно, когда оно впоследствии снова заходило в другие порты, такие как Уолвис-Бей и Луанда.
In May 2008, the An Yue Jiang, a ship from the People's Republic of China bearing a large amount of Chinese manufactured weapons that were bound for Zimbabwe, had docked in Durban harbor; but the dock employees, who were all members of SATAWU, refused to unload the ship of its inventory. SATAWU and COSATU supported the refusal of the cargo, and trade union federations in other southern African countries also refused to unload the ship when it subsequently redocked in other harbors, such as Walvis Bay and Luanda.