{"id":99347,"date":"2022-02-25T01:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/?p=99347"},"modified":"2022-02-25T01:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:25:34","slug":"nupsaw-holds-7th-national-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/nupsaw-holds-7th-national-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"NUPSAW holds 7th National Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) will be holding its 7th National Congress this weekend in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day elective congress will commence with an open session on Saturday, 26 February 2022 and conclude with a closed session where the new leadership of the organisation will be elected.<\/p>\n<p>The National Congress as the highest decision making body, will adopt new resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Union has grown exponentially over the last 5-year term with membership figures more than doubling in that period.<\/p>\n<p>NUPSAW, a proud affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has championed the workers&#8217; struggle both in the public service and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>We have made a significant headway in the struggle for the permanent employment of community healthcare workers, early childhood development and the extended public works programme staff.<\/p>\n<p>While others provinces are still lagging behind, some have already started implementing parts of our demand for permanent absorption of the CHWs, ECDs and EPWPs<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Media are invited to come and observe the opening session, as the union continue building working class power to change the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the National Congress are as folllows:<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Olive Convention Centre, Durban<\/p>\n<p>Time: 08:00<\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday, 26 February 2022<\/p>\n<p>For media inquiries, contact Media Liaison Officer Robinson Nqola on 0789352125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) will be holding its 7th National Congress this weekend in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The two-day elective congress will commence with an open session on Saturday, 26 February 2022 and conclude with a closed session where the new leadership of the organisation<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/nupsaw-holds-7th-national-congress\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[151,65,76],"class_list":["entry","author-communications","post-99347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-press-release","tag-national-congress","tag-nupsaw","tag-saftu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}