Naidoo thanks trade unions for anti-apartheid struggle

Veröffentlicht: 10 Dezember 2014
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Former COSATU General Secretary Jay Naidoo thanked UNI trade unions for their role in the anti-apartheid struggle.

“What is critical to understand is that we needed your solidarity at the most desperate time in our history, where apartheid had stolen our dignity and we were robbed of our identity,” said Naidoo on the final day of the UNI World Congress in Cape Town.

“The trenches in the battle for dignity and human justice were in the factory floors. We had to carry that struggle. Your actions meant the difference between life and death in the battle. I want to honour and thank you for that.”

Naidoo urged unions to innovate and adapt to fight inequality in an ever-changing modern workplace.

“Do we have power? Are we on the defensive? Do we understand what organizing in the 21st century is?”

“The knowledge revolution has been captured by the rich. It has created marginalization. We need a new global political narrative.