The South African Communist Party (SACP) expresses its message of revolutionary solidarity with the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) members who have embarked on a strike action in the fuel refinery industry.

The over 15 000 workers Ceppwawu-led industrial action stems from a deadlock in negotiations with the fuel refinery industry bosses over wage increases, improvement in working conditions and collective bargaining rights.

The bosses are interested only in deepening the degree of labour exploitation and nothing else.

In pursuit of private capital accumulation and widening inequality‎, the bosses are opposed to reasonable wage increases, improved working conditions and centralised bargaining. The bosses want to weaken workers' collective power through fragmented bargaining.  They want to continue amassing, alone, the wealth produced by workers who are left with nothing but meagre wages that keep them poor.

 

Issued by the SACP