COSATU celebrates SAMWU’s 39 years of championing municipal workers’ rights [SOUND]

# Union federation COSATU joins its affiliate, the South African Municipal Workers Union, in celebrating its 39th anniversary. SAMWU was officially formed in October 1987, on the principles of non-racialism and forging a single municipal workers’ union. It emerged to be the country’s first national local government union. COSATU’s Nonzuzo Dlamini says SAMWU has championed the rights of municipal workers, challenged poor working conditions and raised concerns about governance and the deteriorating state of municipalities: