South African law is on the side of unions that have stopped being for the workers and have become parasites living off the sweat of workers.
I am employed in a government entity that is doing research in agriculture. Each year we pay the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) or Solidarity R1,008 or R1,608 respectively, and if we don’t want to be part of either union we are forced by law to pay R1,608 a year anyway...
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