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Announcement: Nars
Dear friends, colleagues and comrades,
The Neil Aggett Labor Research Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa, wishes everyone safety and health during these difficult times.
1. We call for solidarity and tolerance, and for fair and equitable access to safety and treatment for the working class and the poor. Individual responsibility, self-organization, and civil society efforts are essential to mitigating and resolving the crisis.
2. We are honored that NALSU Professor Mike Logan is part of the President's Task Team examining social policy measures to support undocumented workers during this difficult time in our nation's history.
3. During the lockdown, we will be working from home and you can contact us online. Project Manager Mr Valance Wessels (0825057904) or email (v.wessels@ru.ac.za) or Director Professor Lucian van der Walt (073-146-0871) or email (l.vanderwalt@ Please feel free to contact us at ru). .ac.za
4. Our worker education program, including the short course “History and debates of the workers' movement'' for metalworkers' unions – a larger “Labor movement policy, theory and research'' run by us with support from merSETA ” module of the program – postponed, not canceled.
5. Events in the Labor Studies Seminar Series, including events with trade unions and other labor service organizations, sponsored by the South African office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in 2020 have been postponed rather than canceled. be done.
We appreciate your understanding and trust that you will experience kindness, compassion, and togetherness during these times.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
I wish you all the best.
Professor Lucian van der Walt
For the NALSU team
