Numsa head blasts state for lack of coherent economic agenda as ArcelorMittal launches retrenchments process NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary Irvin Jim has blasted the government for not having a coherent economic agenda and blamed it for the strategic sector shedding jobs.As ArcelorMittal announced that its retrenchment process would proceed despite an intervention by the government after appeals by business and labour, Mr Jim warned that strategic sectors in the economy would continue to shed jobs because the government had no cohesive plan to save the troubled economy.On Friday, it was announced that the government had agreed to approve a 10% import tariff on certain imported steel products, which currently enters SA duty free.Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said two other applications for tariffs on nine steel products were also under consideration. Once this was decided, the government would look at labour’s demands on tightening antid...
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