‘EFFSC did in seven months what Nehawu failed to in two decades’

The Economic Freedom Fighters Students Command (EFFSC) earned the plaudits of its parent party “for making advances in the struggles for insourcing at the University of Pretoria (UP)”.

The party’s Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi on Thursday said its “revolutionary student wing” had “in less than seven months of fighting the issue head-on…managed to achieve what Nehawu (the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union) has successfully failed to achieve in over two decades of representing workers”.

Ndlozi said the Student Command “came early from festive holidays to stand side by side with the outsourced workers and continue in a struggle for insourcing that started last year”.

He said the students had‚ with workers at UP‚ achieved:

- “Insourcing with full benefits for general workers with absorption starting in February 2016;

- “R10000 annual wage increase across the board with a temporary salary of R5500‚ which will reach R10000 by 2018 as they exit labour broking contracts; and

- :Workers and their dependants will study for free at UP pending that they fit academic requirements.”

“The EFF is pleased that the EFFSC was at the forefront of these struggles and victory and that they have fulfilled one of the founding principles of the EFFSC‚ which is ‘championing the interests of students and all workers in institutions of higher learning’‚” Ndlozi said.

“We call upon all other universities to accelerate the process of insourcing‚ and not wait for protests and shutdowns.”