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The responsibility for causing the current strike by municipal workers rests with the refusal of the employers, the SA Local Government Association, Salga, to negotiate with the unions. But much of the sympathy for the strike was lost when marches by strikers were accompanied by "trashing" and by the looting of the stalls of hawkers.
Cape Town, South Africa-based journalist commentator and author specialising in political and economic analysis and labour matters.
August 19, 2011
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