Support striking hospital workers in South Africa
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6 SOCIALIST ACTION APRIL1990 Organized by the Health Care Workers Union, the workers are demanding: (1) a substantial wage increase, (2) six months paid maternity leave, (3) job security, (4) a 40-hour week, (5) recognition of the union, and (6) an end to the privatization of the state hospitals.
The Health Care Workers Union was formed in 1987. It is an independent union outside the two main union federations, COSATU and NACTU. The union advocates workers' control and working-class leadership of the struggle for economic justice.
A strike fund has been started to sustain the costs of the strike, including production of pamphlets and other literature. We call on our readers to support them through publicizing their struggle and through monetary contributions.
Support the Health Care Workers Union's strike. Send donations to: Health Care Workers Union, Room 501, Atlantic House, Corporation Street, Capetown, South Africa 8001.
- BARBARA PUTNAM sisted by those who disagree with the ANC on some very fundamental questions.
What will be negotiated?
When Mandela came out he was confronted with [three particular issues]. One has been the concern of whites about their status should Blacks come into power-the whole question of what kind of constitution, of the franchise, of one person, one vote. Many whites wanted Mandela to address this.
[Some in the regime] are trying to put into place a constitutional arrangement that would provide for the security of "minorities," for "group rights." Read group rights as "white rights."
The second has to do with "economic arrangements." What kind of economic system does the ANC hope to put into place? Mandela made very clear that they are prepared to nationalize mines and industries and My hope, and I hope it is realistic, is that Mandela will—before he gets too far—begin to address people on the left of the ANC and bring them into the struggle.
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