By: Mphumzi Maqungo

Cosatu had to get rid of a union with policies that exposed the fact that it was more in line with the federation’s resolutions than the federation itself, writes Mphumzi Maqungo

Johannesburg – The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is one of the nine Cosatu-affiliated trade unions which in May called for a Special National Congress (SNC) of the federation in order to give the rank-and-file membership the opportunity to debate the big problems it has been grappling with for the past three years.

Yet Numsa is the only union whose 365 000 plus members will not be heard at the congress, which after months of delays, started on Monday and ends on Tuesday.

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