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The meeting observed that it took place in a period when class struggles are taking place on a daily basis. The PEC further noted that 2010 marks some serious anniversaries in the history of our struggle. It is exactly 100 years after the formation of the Union of South Africa. It also noted that 2010 further marks 25 Anniversary of COSATU. The PEC also discussed the serious challenges that face the people of Haiti due to the earth quake.
Building a strong COSATU
The PEC assessed the state of the organisation in the province and resolved that it is growing strong but that more work still needs to be done in this regard and resolved to engage on the following to further strengthen the organisation in the Province:
- Embark upon recruitment during the months of April and October to ensure that the target of increasing our membership by 10% each and every year is attained.

- Improve quality of service provided to members.

- Provide support to our shop stewards on an ongoing basis.

- Improve co-ordination and support to our locals.

- Build strong and vibrant structures in the province.

- Convene regular meetings of the case handlers and paralegals and also interact on an ongoing basis with institutions such as the Labour Court, CCMA and other related institutions.

- Engage on massive education to our organisers and shop stewards on collective bargaining and improve their skills to better deal with retrenchments.

- Engage with the Setas and the Department of Labour to expose those companies that do not comply with the labour laws and in particular on employment equity and skills development.

- Establish strong structures in the farming and domestic sectors to confront the super exploitations.

- Campaign for retrenched workers to be re-skilled and for them to be afforded opportunities to runs co-operatives.

- Build strong gender structures to confront exploitation of women within the workplace and also within the society.

The PEC has also resolved to focus on the following campaigns in 2010.
- Labour brokering.
- Living wage.
- Local government elections.
- International campaigns.
- Recruitment
- Commemorating International and national events.
- Racism.

The State of the Alliance
The PEC assessed the state of the alliance and resolved that the alliance is the only weapon in the hands of our people that will advance the working class interest and therefore resolved to:
- Convene the Provincial Alliance Summit before the end of March 2010.

- Build a strong, effective, functioning and vibrant alliance in the Province and at all levels.
- Develop a clear joint political, organisational and government programme for the alliance in the Province.
- Conduct joint political education for the PEC of the alliance at least twice during the course of 2010 and including the Regions.
- Conduct political education with the SACP on monthly.
- Build the capacity of the alliance in the Province to deploy and monitor deployed cadres in all aspect of our responsibility.

- Build a monitoring and evaluation mechanism on the implementation of the alliance programme.

The next PEC will have to assess progress towards this end and it also resolved that this task is more critical and relevant at this conjuncture given the recent developments within the alliance.
Political and ideological consciousness
The PEC discussed the important and critical role of this task and resolved to urgently engage on political education within our own ranks to develop capacity of our leaders and shop stewards in this regard and resolved that we need to:
- Deepen revolutionary understanding of the National Democratic Revolution by all our leaders at all level.
- Build working class confidence in articulating the historical perspective of the national democratic revolution and among others for them to understand that they are the main motive force and the leader of the national democratic revolution.
- Expose the notion that seems to suggest that capital and monopoly capital are the motive force of the national democratic revolution.
- Affirm COSATU as the leading detachment of the working class.
- Campaign for the nationalisation of the mines and other key industries such as Sasol and Mittal Steel.
- Defend and deepen the Polokwane gains and effectively utilising the space created by Polokwane for policy change.
- Prioritise workplace issues and locating them within broader class struggles.
- Build a broad coalition with community-based organisations around the socio-economic crisis affecting the working class.
- Build working class hegemony and leadership to the society.
- Engage with the SACP on its medium term strategy.
- Expose the 1996 class project reminisce both organisational and politically.
- Build Marxism as a tool of scientific enquiry to understand the nature of the world and capitalism.
- Contribute to the development of a theory of transition from capitalism.
- Develop a vision of a post socialist society.
- How will NDR mature to lay basis for socialism.
- Develop a clear concrete programme to deepen the level of class consciousness of the working class during the current phase of the NDR.

Revolutionary morality and ethics
The PEC noted with serious concern the eroding of our revolutionary morality and ethics of our struggle. The PEC resolved that our struggle against apartheid, capitalism and colonialism is informed by the immoral nature of these systems and ideology and therefore we will not sit and idle while the same tendencies creep within the movement and our government and therefore resolved that the federation in the Province will:
- Engage on the need for public representative to have no business interest.
- Fight crass materialism.
- Build capacity of the state to avoid reliant on private providers and ensure that outsourced state functions are broad back to the state.
- Engage on the formulation of the best tendering system.
- Engage on the kind and type of sanctions to be imposed to those who use the state resources for personal gains.
- Campaign for the cooling-off period to be five years.
- Engage the alliance and the state on the banning of those companies and directors who conduct business with the state without declaring their interest.
- Encourage our members within the state and private sector to be whistleblowers on corruption.
The meeting further endorsed the call for lifestyle audit for all leaders of the federation and resolved that the PEC will volunteer for such a process. The federation will also engage with the alliance partners in the Province to also subject themselves to such a process.
African National Congress
The meeting discussed the state of the organisation in the Province and the challenges that are confronting the movement and resolved as follows.
Centenary Celebration
The meeting discussed the centenary celebration of the ANC in 2012 and resolved that the federation in the Province will work very hard to ensure the success of the celebration and in that end resolved to:
- Form part of the task team in the Province that will prepare for the celebration.

- Mobilise our members to be part of the celebration.

- Mobilise resources towards such a celebration.

Swelling the Ranks of the ANC
The meeting noted progress registered towards this end and resolved to intensify the campaign in the Province, to:
- Target about 100 000 of its members to be members of the ANC by October 2010.

- Task each union to recruit at least 5555 members.

Each PEC will have to receive a report on progress towards this objective.
ANC 11th Provincial Conference
The meeting noted that our movement will be holding its 11th Provincial Conference in May 2010 and the PEC then resolved to:
- Work hand in hand with our movement towards a successful Conference.

- Engage with the discussion document for the Conference.

- Ensure that the outcome of the conference should be working class-biased and pro-poor.

- Encourage our members to actively engage in the branches towards such a Conference.

- Assist in building strong leagues in the Province.

Leadership Collective
The PEC discussed at length on the challenges facing the movement in this regard and what should be our approach as the federation to this question and resolved that the federation will be guided by the following principles in engaging the question:
- Work towards the unity of the Province.

- Support leaders who will ensure that the following is attained.

- Leaders who are not anti working class.
- Leaders that respect and value the role of the alliance.
- Leaders who will carry and committed to the resolution of Polokwane.
- Leaders who will unite the movement in the Province.
- Leaders who will not only be consumed by the state/government interest and or business interest.
The PEC therefore mandated the leadership of the Province to engage with all the members to ensure that the above principles are realised.
Secretary General of the ANC
The meeting also discussed the attacks of the Secretary General of the ANC by some elements within the ANC and resolved that:
- The attack to the current collective leadership that has emerged in Polokwane is reactionary and should be fought in whatever form and or shape.

- The attack to the Secretary General is not informed by any principle but by greed and crass materialism.

- The members of the federation should as a collective and individually defend the Secretary General and ensure that such find its expression within the branches of the ANC.

- To call upon those who have made such an attack their career that there are better things that they could occupy themselves on such as building their structures which are so weak if not none functionally

The State of health, education and crime in our Province
The PEC deliberated at length on the state of our Province in the main on these issues and resolved to:
- Work very closely with the Gauteng Government and the Premier to resolve problems in these areas.

- Urgently convene a meeting with the premier and the MEC's to develop a joint working programme in addressing these matters.

- The members of the federation in these areas ensure that service delivery is our priority areas and ensure that a new culture within the public service is promoted across.

- Contribute to the management of reconfiguration of the Provincial Government

- Support and implement a call to root out corruption within the Gauteng Government and other departments

- Defend and build the public sector to ensure that the state drives transformation.

- Develop our capacity to influence policy and legislative process at the provincial and local and sectoral level.

- Ensure that the state is transformed to meet the needs of our people.

- Work for effective School Governing Bodies and Hospital Boards.

- Ensure that our parents play a critical role in the affairs of their children.

Nersa and Electricity Hike
The PEC engaged with the matter and resolved to:
- Reject the electricity hike as confirmed by Nersa, which confirms our view that the public hearings were nothing but a mere dress rehearsal and to fool the public as the decision was long taken.

- Reject the cabinet decision to approve the electricity hike.

- Call upon the resignation of the Nersa board and also for COSATU to campaign for restructuring of the board to ensure that it represent the interest of the Poor.

- Call upon the federation to engage on protest action and including a full-blown two days strike.

- Work with all progressive organisations in fighting against this decision of Nersa.

Nationalisation of the Mines
The PEC debated the call for the nationalisation of the mines and other related industries and resolved as follows:
- The call by the ANC Youth League is proper and very progressive in this instance.

- To work very closely with the Youth league on the matter and in that end to ensure that our people support such a call.

- To ensure that in our next Alliance Summit the matter receive due consideration and discussion including forming an alliance subcommittee to contribute towards the discussion paper of the ANC.

- To encourage our members to ensure that this matter is discussed in the branches of the ANC.

- To mobilise all progressive forces in the province within and outside the alliance to support the call.

- To ensure that the matter is discussed in the upcoming ANC 11th Provincial Conference.

Decent Work Agenda
The PEC discussed the matter and felt that the matter has not receive enough and deserved attention and it seems that it is no longer on the public arena and in that end the PEC resolved as follows:
- All our affiliates to raise this issue in their engagement with their respective sectors.

- To propose to the coming CEC that the negotiations at Nedlac should urgently conclude on this matter.

- To mobilise our community for a general strike.

- To continue the call for banning of labour brokers.

- To expose all those companies that are benefiting and particular those BEE companies and individuals that resist banning of labour brokers.

International
The PEC discussed the state of the international balance of forces and resolved that the federation in the Province will focus on the following international campaigns.
- Zimbabwe.
- Swaziland
- Western Sahara
- Palestine
- Burma
- Mexico
- Cuban

The PEC further resolve to urgently mobilise for the success of the march in support of the Palestine on 5 March 2010 and it further mandated affiliates to discuss practical steps on how it will ensure that the Israel Goods are boycotted by our members including refusing to touch any goods from Israel.
2010 World Cup
The PEC discussed the world cup and resolve as follows:
- The federation will launch a massive campaign in April in support of the world cup.

- The federation will use the May-Day as an event to promote the world cup in the province.

- The federation will very closely with the Gauteng Government and the people of the Province for a successful hosting of the World Cup.
Cosatu: Statement by Dumisani Dakile, Congress of South African Trade Unions Gauteng Provincial Secretary, on the outcomes fo the PEC meeting (27/02/2010)

The meeting observed that it took place in a period when class struggles are taking place on a daily basis. The PEC further noted that 2010 marks some serious anniversaries in the history of our struggle. It is exactly 100 years after the formation of the Union of South Africa. It also noted that 2010 further marks 25 Anniversary of COSATU. The PEC also discussed the serious challenges that face the people of Haiti due to the earth quake.
Building a strong COSATU
The PEC assessed the state of the organisation in the province and resolved that it is growing strong but that more work still needs to be done in this regard and resolved to engage on the following to further strengthen the organisation in the Province:
- Embark upon recruitment during the months of April and October to ensure that the target of increasing our membership by 10% each and every year is attained.

- Improve quality of service provided to members.

- Provide support to our shop stewards on an ongoing basis.

- Improve co-ordination and support to our locals.

- Build strong and vibrant structures in the province.

- Convene regular meetings of the case handlers and paralegals and also interact on an ongoing basis with institutions such as the Labour Court, CCMA and other related institutions.

- Engage on massive education to our organisers and shop stewards on collective bargaining and improve their skills to better deal with retrenchments.

- Engage with the Setas and the Department of Labour to expose those companies that do not comply with the labour laws and in particular on employment equity and skills development.

- Establish strong structures in the farming and domestic sectors to confront the super exploitations.

- Campaign for retrenched workers to be re-skilled and for them to be afforded opportunities to runs co-operatives.

- Build strong gender structures to confront exploitation of women within the workplace and also within the society.

The PEC has also resolved to focus on the following campaigns in 2010.
- Labour brokering.
- Living wage.
- Local government elections.
- International campaigns.
- Recruitment
- Commemorating International and national events.
- Racism.

The State of the Alliance
The PEC assessed the state of the alliance and resolved that the alliance is the only weapon in the hands of our people that will advance the working class interest and therefore resolved to:
- Convene the Provincial Alliance Summit before the end of March 2010.

- Build a strong, effective, functioning and vibrant alliance in the Province and at all levels.
- Develop a clear joint political, organisational and government programme for the alliance in the Province.
- Conduct joint political education for the PEC of the alliance at least twice during the course of 2010 and including the Regions.
- Conduct political education with the SACP on monthly.
- Build the capacity of the alliance in the Province to deploy and monitor deployed cadres in all aspect of our responsibility.

- Build a monitoring and evaluation mechanism on the implementation of the alliance programme.

The next PEC will have to assess progress towards this end and it also resolved that this task is more critical and relevant at this conjuncture given the recent developments within the alliance.
Political and ideological consciousness
The PEC discussed the important and critical role of this task and resolved to urgently engage on political education within our own ranks to develop capacity of our leaders and shop stewards in this regard and resolved that we need to:
- Deepen revolutionary understanding of the National Democratic Revolution by all our leaders at all level.
- Build working class confidence in articulating the historical perspective of the national democratic revolution and among others for them to understand that they are the main motive force and the leader of the national democratic revolution.
- Expose the notion that seems to suggest that capital and monopoly capital are the motive force of the national democratic revolution.
- Affirm COSATU as the leading detachment of the working class.
- Campaign for the nationalisation of the mines and other key industries such as Sasol and Mittal Steel.
- Defend and deepen the Polokwane gains and effectively utilising the space created by Polokwane for policy change.
- Prioritise workplace issues and locating them within broader class struggles.
- Build a broad coalition with community-based organisations around the socio-economic crisis affecting the working class.
- Build working class hegemony and leadership to the society.
- Engage with the SACP on its medium term strategy.
- Expose the 1996 class project reminisce both organisational and politically.
- Build Marxism as a tool of scientific enquiry to understand the nature of the world and capitalism.
- Contribute to the development of a theory of transition from capitalism.
- Develop a vision of a post socialist society.
- How will NDR mature to lay basis for socialism.
- Develop a clear concrete programme to deepen the level of class consciousness of the working class during the current phase of the NDR.

Revolutionary morality and ethics
The PEC noted with serious concern the eroding of our revolutionary morality and ethics of our struggle. The PEC resolved that our struggle against apartheid, capitalism and colonialism is informed by the immoral nature of these systems and ideology and therefore we will not sit and idle while the same tendencies creep within the movement and our government and therefore resolved that the federation in the Province will:
- Engage on the need for public representative to have no business interest.
- Fight crass materialism.
- Build capacity of the state to avoid reliant on private providers and ensure that outsourced state functions are broad back to the state.
- Engage on the formulation of the best tendering system.
- Engage on the kind and type of sanctions to be imposed to those who use the state resources for personal gains.
- Campaign for the cooling-off period to be five years.
- Engage the alliance and the state on the banning of those companies and directors who conduct business with the state without declaring their interest.
- Encourage our members within the state and private sector to be whistleblowers on corruption.
The meeting further endorsed the call for lifestyle audit for all leaders of the federation and resolved that the PEC will volunteer for such a process. The federation will also engage with the alliance partners in the Province to also subject themselves to such a process.
African National Congress
The meeting discussed the state of the organisation in the Province and the challenges that are confronting the movement and resolved as follows.
Centenary Celebration
The meeting discussed the centenary celebration of the ANC in 2012 and resolved that the federation in the Province will work very hard to ensure the success of the celebration and in that end resolved to:
- Form part of the task team in the Province that will prepare for the celebration.

- Mobilise our members to be part of the celebration.

- Mobilise resources towards such a celebration.

Swelling the Ranks of the ANC
The meeting noted progress registered towards this end and resolved to intensify the campaign in the Province, to:
- Target about 100 000 of its members to be members of the ANC by October 2010.

- Task each union to recruit at least 5555 members.

Each PEC will have to receive a report on progress towards this objective.
ANC 11th Provincial Conference
The meeting noted that our movement will be holding its 11th Provincial Conference in May 2010 and the PEC then resolved to:
- Work hand in hand with our movement towards a successful Conference.

- Engage with the discussion document for the Conference.

- Ensure that the outcome of the conference should be working class-biased and pro-poor.

- Encourage our members to actively engage in the branches towards such a Conference.

- Assist in building strong leagues in the Province.

Leadership Collective
The PEC discussed at length on the challenges facing the movement in this regard and what should be our approach as the federation to this question and resolved that the federation will be guided by the following principles in engaging the question:
- Work towards the unity of the Province.

- Support leaders who will ensure that the following is attained.

- Leaders who are not anti working class.
- Leaders that respect and value the role of the alliance.
- Leaders who will carry and committed to the resolution of Polokwane.
- Leaders who will unite the movement in the Province.
- Leaders who will not only be consumed by the state/government interest and or business interest.
The PEC therefore mandated the leadership of the Province to engage with all the members to ensure that the above principles are realised.
Secretary General of the ANC
The meeting also discussed the attacks of the Secretary General of the ANC by some elements within the ANC and resolved that:
- The attack to the current collective leadership that has emerged in Polokwane is reactionary and should be fought in whatever form and or shape.

- The attack to the Secretary General is not informed by any principle but by greed and crass materialism.

- The members of the federation should as a collective and individually defend the Secretary General and ensure that such find its expression within the branches of the ANC.

- To call upon those who have made such an attack their career that there are better things that they could occupy themselves on such as building their structures which are so weak if not none functionally

The State of health, education and crime in our Province
The PEC deliberated at length on the state of our Province in the main on these issues and resolved to:
- Work very closely with the Gauteng Government and the Premier to resolve problems in these areas.

- Urgently convene a meeting with the premier and the MEC's to develop a joint working programme in addressing these matters.

- The members of the federation in these areas ensure that service delivery is our priority areas and ensure that a new culture within the public service is promoted across.

- Contribute to the management of reconfiguration of the Provincial Government

- Support and implement a call to root out corruption within the Gauteng Government and other departments

- Defend and build the public sector to ensure that the state drives transformation.

- Develop our capacity to influence policy and legislative process at the provincial and local and sectoral level.

- Ensure that the state is transformed to meet the needs of our people.

- Work for effective School Governing Bodies and Hospital Boards.

- Ensure that our parents play a critical role in the affairs of their children.

Nersa and Electricity Hike
The PEC engaged with the matter and resolved to:
- Reject the electricity hike as confirmed by Nersa, which confirms our view that the public hearings were nothing but a mere dress rehearsal and to fool the public as the decision was long taken.

- Reject the cabinet decision to approve the electricity hike.

- Call upon the resignation of the Nersa board and also for COSATU to campaign for restructuring of the board to ensure that it represent the interest of the Poor.

- Call upon the federation to engage on protest action and including a full-blown two days strike.

- Work with all progressive organisations in fighting against this decision of Nersa.

Nationalisation of the Mines
The PEC debated the call for the nationalisation of the mines and other related industries and resolved as follows:
- The call by the ANC Youth League is proper and very progressive in this instance.

- To work very closely with the Youth league on the matter and in that end to ensure that our people support such a call.

- To ensure that in our next Alliance Summit the matter receive due consideration and discussion including forming an alliance subcommittee to contribute towards the discussion paper of the ANC.

- To encourage our members to ensure that this matter is discussed in the branches of the ANC.

- To mobilise all progressive forces in the province within and outside the alliance to support the call.

- To ensure that the matter is discussed in the upcoming ANC 11th Provincial Conference.

Decent Work Agenda
The PEC discussed the matter and felt that the matter has not receive enough and deserved attention and it seems that it is no longer on the public arena and in that end the PEC resolved as follows:
- All our affiliates to raise this issue in their engagement with their respective sectors.

- To propose to the coming CEC that the negotiations at Nedlac should urgently conclude on this matter.

- To mobilise our community for a general strike.

- To continue the call for banning of labour brokers.

- To expose all those companies that are benefiting and particular those BEE companies and individuals that resist banning of labour brokers.

International
The PEC discussed the state of the international balance of forces and resolved that the federation in the Province will focus on the following international campaigns.
- Zimbabwe.
- Swaziland
- Western Sahara
- Palestine
- Burma
- Mexico
- Cuban

The PEC further resolve to urgently mobilise for the success of the march in support of the Palestine on 5 March 2010 and it further mandated affiliates to discuss practical steps on how it will ensure that the Israel Goods are boycotted by our members including refusing to touch any goods from Israel.
2010 World Cup
The PEC discussed the world cup and resolve as follows:
- The federation will launch a massive campaign in April in support of the world cup.

- The federation will use the May-Day as an event to promote the world cup in the province.

- The federation will very closely with the Gauteng Government and the people of the Province for a successful hosting of the World Cup.