So Cosatu will openly defy the Covid-19 social-distancing regulations and support a march against cutting back the state wage bill. If such action is not already a crime during a state of national disaster it should be.
Bearing in mind that the march is not against retrenchments or reduced pay but only against not getting an above-inflation wage rise, one wonders what public sympathy they will get during a period of businesses going bust and workers being laid off wholesale, with no pay at all. ..
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