Progressive+Youth+Alliance+supports+Shoprite+Checkers+boycott

Media release, Fri 2006/09/15 01:34 PM
=Youth Alliance supports Shoprite Checkers boycott, YCL=


 * //Statement of the following organisations, issued by the Progressive Youth Alliance Secretariat://**


 * ANC Youth League

Young Communist League

South African Students Congress

Congress of South African Students

Students Union Christian Action

South African Students Press Union

Young Christian Students Action.**

The Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) jointly representing seven youth formation of more than 1 million members expresses and reaffirms our full and unwavering support for Shoprite/Checkers and the Bayer and JC Morgan workers strike, as led by SACCAWU and SATAWU respectively.

In this regard, we call on communities not to buy goods from Shoprite / Checkers until the workers demands are met.

We believe that this action will put pressure to the employer to concede to the demands of the workers.

Both the strikes, and many others which took place during the course of this year, are a reflection of the deteriorating working conditions that SA workers are faced with, and the unwillingness of companies to ensure that they pay decent salaries for these employees.

It is regrettable that almost a month of hard and militant worker struggle, both Shoprite / Checkers and JC Morgan management has not conceded to the demands of workers, who continue on daily basis to endure harassment and assault unleashed by some in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

As the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) we will not accept big business particularly Shoprite/Checkers to continue regarding our people as cheap labourers that deserve to be exploited, permanently casualised and outsourced.

The PYA has set-up a Strike Committee comprising of all the components of (of the PYA) which will liase with the unions concerned and mobilise young people for solidarity behind this actions.

We further call upon the Ministry of Safety and Security to investigate the conduct of the members of the South African Police Service who are hell-bent to unleash anger and villainy to the striking workers.

We will not allow our police to be collaborators and apply Apartheid tactics of repression and deny the workers their constitutional right of holding a peaceful demonstration.

Issued by the Progressive Youth Alliance Secretariat

 * Contact:**


 * Castro Ngobese @ 082 567 3557 (YCL)**
 * Zizi Kodwa @ 082 330 4910 (ANC YL)**
 * Mandla Seopela @ 082 760 1974 (SASCO)**
 * Buda Tsotetsi @ 076 493 0433 (COSAS)**

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