Times Of Swaziland: O’MUNYE PHEZ’KOMUNYE – MANAGER   REPORTED TO UMPHAKATSI

O’MUNYE PHEZ’KOMUNYE – MANAGER   REPORTED TO UMPHAKATSI
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BY BONISILE MAKHUBU on 03/02/2018 01:00:00


SHISELWENI – When confronted with difficult situations, some people find
themselves making statements, which they would not have made in normal
situations.
A manager of a certain company is said to have found himself in such a position
and subsequently made statements, which demean the country’s laws and how they
are enacted.
He is alleged to have made the derogatory remarks during a staff meeting early
last month, after the employers had made him aware that there were legislations
that authorised trade unions in the country.
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About 40 employees are said to have attended the meeting, where they were
drawing strategies for the New Year.
Some of the workers have revealed that it all started when the manager advised
the workers against being members of the union.
“The manager who was leading the meeting gave us a new slogan saying for those
who would not withdraw from the union this year it would be ‘Omunye
Phez’komunye’, something we translated as a threat to mean that it would be
the survival of the fittest.”
During the meeting some of the vocal employees are said to have queried their
supervisor about the alleged hatred of the union.
“We told him that unions were allowed in the country because they operated
under a legal instrument, a law that was signed by authorities. To our shock
though, the manager still insisted that in this company it would not be the
case.”
These employees alleged that over the years they have been frustrated for
subscribing to their union, the Public and Private Sector Transport Workers
Union (PPSTWU).