**The report will be available on this site shortly**
The Launch will be accompanied by a show of a video and a photo exhibition.
All are invited under the following details:
Date: Thursday, 27 October, 2011
Time: 12h30-13h30
Venue: Wits University, Senate House Concourse
The report gives a broad background to the genesis of outsourcing at the University of the Witwatersrand. It highlights the condition of the treatment of workers at the University and tells the story of how workers who are all black and mainly African, are segregated from the University community, they are subjected to using separate entrances, toilets, public facilities (e.g. Library Lawns and the Matrix) and workers are not allowed to gather and associate on campus. The report argues that this has rendered these black workers as sub-human and sub-citizens at Wits and that such conditions are made possible by both the contractual agreements between the University and Outsourced Companies as well as the decision to outsource in the first place.
It argues that the ways in which the University has treated workers, directly and indirectly through contractual agreements with companies has offended the values it espouses - human rights, democracy and freedom. It recommend that the university immediately removes all forms of segregation that has rendered outsourced workers as sub-human, and in the long term; it calls for the absolute removal of outsourcing and re-integration of all outsourced workers as part of the University employees.
The report will be submitted to Wits University Senate, Forum, Convocation and Council
For further information, contact:
wsc.wits@gmail.com
