TUCOSWA EXEC MEET OVER REGISTRATION, PRESIDENT

MBABANE – The Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) will meet tomorrow over matters involving its registration as well as to decide the organisation’s next president.

At the beginning of this year TUCOSWA, through Secretary General Vincent Ncongwane, said the fact that it had still not received a response to its registration application was a political prank.
Ncongwane, in a press statement, described the failure to respond to the organisation’s application as political shenanigans by government.

Yesterday, Ncongwane informed this publication that the organisation’s executive would meet at its offices, where they would discuss the rigmarole of the organisation’s registration.
“We want to explore options on what we can do to get government to register us as well as the Amalgamated Trade Unions of Swaziland (ATUSWA).”
Ncongwane further said the meeting would address who would take over from Barnes Dlamini, who recently resigned as president.

Dlamini, when interviewed after his resignation, said he wanted to pursue a family business as his parents had aged.
Ncongwane expressed frustration over the delayed registration and said during the presentations to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Portfolio Committee, TUCOSWA requested that there be a time frame for registration.
“There is now a legislation allowing the registration of federations but they can’t register us and there is no feedback on why.”

The unionist further alleged that the delay in the feedback was not a result of any administrative problem. He alleged that if the ministry had any problems with the application, it should have communicated this with the organisation.
“Seemingly, other applications have already been responded to, except TUCOSWA’s,” Ncongwane claimed.

“For us it is clear that the promulgation of the amendments to the Industrial Relations Act to allow federations to register were only meant to bluff the international community to believe that government was doing something.”
Ncongwane said the federation and its allies would call for action against government for what they viewed as dubious actions.
However, the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act of 2014 is not specific on how long the commissioner of Labour can take to approve an application to register a federation.

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