LETTER: Workers are responsible for state’s reckless spending
As a member of the governing party, the unions have acquiesced in a legislative policy that gives them excessive power in both public and private spheres
I suggest that your editorial on the role of trade unions is wrong on one point (“Extraordinary act of sacrifice is needed (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2020-10-08-editorial-extraordinary-act-of-sacrifice-is-needed/),” October 8). Workers are responsible, through the unions that represent them, for the government's reckless spending. Most of those unions are actually part of government as they are part of the tripartite alliance in the first instance.
As often noted, the ANC has bought the support of state workers using taxpayers’ money since soon after its inception in 1994. Not only are many overpaid, but a good many are also underskilled and underemployed. As a member of the governing party, the unions have, to say the least, acquiesced in a legislative policy that gives them excessive power in both the public and private spheres of our nation...
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