Cosatu ‘has never been on the side of workers’ - Steenhuisen
The DA has accused trade union federation Cosatu of betraying workers by aligning with the ANC and the South African Communist Party.
It claims Cosatu's alliance with these parties has led to policies that have hindered economic growth and job creation.
The party has proposed its economic policies as an alternative to stimulate economic growth.
Briefing the media outside Cosatu headquarters in Braamfontein, DA leader John Steenhuisen urged South Africans to vote for change in the upcoming elections.
“Far from being on the side of the workers, Cosatu has proven itself, time and time again, to be on the side of the ruling ANC cadres and elites.
“And it is Cosatu’s unholy alliance with the ANC and the SACP which has twisted and contorted the South African economy, under an onerous and irrational labour regime, to create an exclusive, sluggish, and uncompetitive economy where the workers have been squeezed out and have no access to opportunity to build a life for themselves.”
Steenhuisen claimed Cosatu had never been on the side of workers.
“It is an organisation that has continually and systemically worked against the South African worker, acting as a chokehold on our economy and a boot against the neck of job-seeking citizens.”
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