CHEMICAL union Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) was provided with some relief on Thursday as the Labour Court in Johannesburg postponed an application by the registrar of labour to place the union under administration.
The registrar moved to place the union — with some 65,000 members — under administration after it failed to operate according to its constitution and failed to submit audited financial statements for the past five years.
But the matter has been increasingly complicated by a factional battle in the union, which has torn it in two.
Department of Labour officials and Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant have also been caught in the fray, with one faction claiming that another faction is attempting to use the government to influence the case in favour of their opponents.
An agreement was struck between parties in the corridors of the court house to postpone the matter to give the union an opportunity to respond to the application.
While Ceppwawu had indicated its intention to oppose the attempt by the department to place the union under the control of an independent party, it had not filed any responding papers on why it should not be placed under administration.
The court ordered Ceppwawu to pay all costs of Thursday’s hearing and to file its answering affidavit by July 9.
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CHEMICAL union Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) was provided with some relief on Thursday as the Labour Court in Johannesburg postponed an application by the registrar of labour to place the union under administration.
The registrar moved to place the union — with some 65,000 members — under administration after it failed to operate according to its constitution and failed to submit audited financial statements for the past five years.
But the matter has been increasingly complicated by a factional battle in the union, which has torn it in two.
Department of Labour officials and Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant have also been caught in the fray, with one faction claiming that another faction is attempting to use the government to influence the case in favour of their opponents.
An agreement was struck between parties in the corridors of the court house to postpone the matter to give the union an opportunity to respond to the application.
While Ceppwawu had indicated its intention to oppose the attempt by the department to place the union under the control of an independent party, it had not filed any responding papers on why it should not be placed under administration.
The court ordered Ceppwawu to pay all costs of Thursday’s hearing and to file its answering affidavit by July 9.
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