CHILD CARE DAY JUNE 1 WORKERS ARE PARENTS TOO!! June 1st is International Children’s Day. In South Africa the month of June is also a month in which we focus on needs of children and the youth. Cosatu has since 1990 declared that we should use this day to highlight our demands on childcare. The Federation declared that June 1st …

KZN     Durban and Pinetown Locals Creches and workers children : Picketting La Lee Park   06 June 2014 Durban: Isibaya Casino Workplace Awareness raising of members /childcare activity   10 June 2014 Port Shepstone Local Awareness Raising on Childcare/ Distribution of sanitary towels to school girls 18 June 2014 Kokstad Local Picketing in CBD by children 20 June …

NWVaal       Vaal/Vereeniging Locals   Joint with COSATU: Visit Bophelong Childcare Centre to Raise awareness about Rights of children   01 June 2014 Mafikeng Local Awareness Raising at Local Shopsteward Council; Pick n Pay Mafikeng Catering for less fortunate /street children 01June 2014 01 June 2014

FSNC     Bloemfontein Local       Kimberley Local Bloemfontein Pick n Pay Hyper workplace activity (company refused access to canteen)   Kimberley Local and JDGroup Supply Chain Awareness Raising at workplace for workers, community members/organisations children and youth 01 June 2014           21 June 2014      

Western Cape     Cape Town Local N1City Pick n Pay workplace activity; Long Beach Pick n Pay; Hout Bay Youth, Workers, Community Dialoque 01 June 2014     16 June 2014

Mpumalanga Secunda Local Umuzi Lodge Workplace Activity 01 June 2014

Northern Region Tswane Local Ditebogo by Grace of God Childcare and Orphanage Centre 10 June 2014

Wits     Jhb Local Picketting of members, officials and their children 31 May 2014 West Rand Local Youth Dialoque 16 June 2014       Solidarity     Gauteng #BringBackOurGirls 07 June 2014 Gauteng #BringBackOurGirls 17 June 2014 Johannesburg Ditsela Siyakhuluma: Youth Panel Discussion 20 June 2014

SACCAWU Central Executive Committee STATEMENT ON THE ABDUCTED GIRLS IN NIGERIA The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union held its Central Executive Committee meeting on 29 to 31 May 2014 and among others, the meeting deliberated on the appalling and disturbing development, wherein Boko Haram has kidnapped innocent girls in April 2014, from the Chibok Government School in …

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS! STATEMENT ON THE MORE THAN 200 NIGERIAN SCHOOL GIRLS ABDUCTED SACCAWU joins the international outrage to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram fundamentalist terroristic lunatics and echo the words of millions across Africa and beyond; BRING BACK OUR GIRLS! We condemn the cowardly act by Boko Haram who are using children …