Teacher unions in conflict

In response to the Daily News article by Willem Phungula titled, Teacher unions at each other’s throats over member poaching. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union’s (Nehawu) decision to embark on a recruitment drive to poach teachers to its ranks could pit it against fellow alliance partner, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu).It is unfortunate that Nehawu’s actions are seen as poaching, while Sadtu is not addressing teachers suffering. Sadtu is sleeping in bed with the employer particular in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education. In fact, Sadtu…