Corruption, incompetency, absenteeism, rudeness, late coming and drinking on duty...
THE Cosatu leadership is set to embark on a drive to deal with what it believes is unacceptable behaviour by federation members.
In a report prepared for the Cosatu central committee later this month, general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi accuses certain public servants of corruption, incompetency, absenteeism, rudeness, late coming and drinking on duty.
"These acts cannot be entirely blamed on the challenges facing the administration; they are about individual employees and their attitude towards their work and the public in general, which comprises mostly the working class and poor," Vavi writes.
Vavi reveales that he had met Public Services and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi and they had agreed to start a campaign to "change the ethos and attitude of public servants to improve service delivery".
In the same report, Vavi recalls how ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe lashed out at union leaders after a bilateral meeting in September 2010 over "more favourable publicity Cosatu has received for combating corruption and for being seen by some commentators as a conscious of our young democracy".
He says Mantashe told the union leaders: "What foolishness have you been up to, to earn the praise of your adversaries".
While the campaign will be spearheaded by Cosatu and the Department of Public Services and Administration, Home Affairs, police, Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Human Settlements, Social Development, Correctional Service, the South African Revenue Service, Basic Education and others will also be brought in, Vavi writes.
Baloyi's department will have to pick up the tab for the campaign.
"We are of the view that this campaign must be funded by the department," Vavi says.
Just over one million public servants belong to Cosatu through their unions - the South African Democratic Teachers Union, National Education Health and Allied Workers Union, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, Public and Allied Workers Union of South Africa and Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa.
Cosatu plans to deal with unruly public workers
Corruption, incompetency, absenteeism, rudeness, late coming and drinking on duty...
THE Cosatu leadership is set to embark on a drive to deal with what it believes is unacceptable behaviour by federation members.
In a report prepared for the Cosatu central committee later this month, general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi accuses certain public servants of corruption, incompetency, absenteeism, rudeness, late coming and drinking on duty.
"These acts cannot be entirely blamed on the challenges facing the administration; they are about individual employees and their attitude towards their work and the public in general, which comprises mostly the working class and poor," Vavi writes.
Vavi reveales that he had met Public Services and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi and they had agreed to start a campaign to "change the ethos and attitude of public servants to improve service delivery".
In the same report, Vavi recalls how ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe lashed out at union leaders after a bilateral meeting in September 2010 over "more favourable publicity Cosatu has received for combating corruption and for being seen by some commentators as a conscious of our young democracy".
He says Mantashe told the union leaders: "What foolishness have you been up to, to earn the praise of your adversaries".
While the campaign will be spearheaded by Cosatu and the Department of Public Services and Administration, Home Affairs, police, Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Human Settlements, Social Development, Correctional Service, the South African Revenue Service, Basic Education and others will also be brought in, Vavi writes.
Baloyi's department will have to pick up the tab for the campaign.
"We are of the view that this campaign must be funded by the department," Vavi says.
Just over one million public servants belong to Cosatu through their unions - the South African Democratic Teachers Union, National Education Health and Allied Workers Union, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, Public and Allied Workers Union of South Africa and Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa.
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