16 October 2015
The SACP in Gauteng Province will this Friday morning of the 16 October 2015 join the picket line against the Birchwood Hotel management in Boksburg, Johannesburg starting at 10h00am.
We are joining the protest in solidarity with SACCAWU workers to demonstrate against the decision by Birchwood Hotel management to outsource services operated by the hotel for many years and the resultant dismissal of many workers. The irresponsible action of hotel is threatening the jobs of over 140 employees and many families dependent on them. The managers of the hotel are guilty of corporate mismanagement and for abdicating their fudiciary duties. They now expect workers to shoulder the responsibility and accept precarious employment.
The SACP call for the unconditional reinstatement of all the dismissed workers and for an end to threats of dismissals and harassment of worker leaders. Furthermore, should management of the Birchwood hotel not oblige to workers demands, we will call for a full boycott of Birchwood hotel and upon the national, provincial and local government to desist from supporting this labour brokered institution.
The Birchwood hotel has for many years accumulated huge surpluses from the support it gained from trade unions, public and government institutions. Precisely because it provided services within the framework of a national consensus for job creation, to end poverty, unemployment and inequality. Now the subordination of that consensus to huge profits at the expense of the principles is an abomination for the SACP. No single worker must be retrenched from Birchwood Hotel.
The SACP Oupa Phasha district will also hold a march on the 23 October 2015 starting from the East Rand Mall at 09h00 to the Birchwood Hotel.
For further information, contact:
Vusi Tshabalala, SACP Oupa Phasha District Secretary, 082 492 4649
Lucian Segami (SACP Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson) on 079 522 0098a