What a disgrace done by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), Spokesperson who was suspended for a post on a union's Facebook and Tweets to COSATU's General Secretary Mr Zwelinzima Vavi.On Saturday, Rea Molopyane the SATAWU Spokesperson using her personal Twitter account, tweeted to Vavi who addressed the meeting: "Please don't leave before we discuss Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA) issues of the union.Satawu will sink as you see it".
In thew Facebook post that led to her suspension Molapyane wrote that the suspension of the Union's Gauteng Provincial Secretary Chris Nkosi had been lifted with immediate effect.She also posted that the issues of the rumoured plan to remove SATAWU president Ephraim Mphahlele were not discussed at the CEC meeting nor was the submission made by Gauteng to charge Maziya.Apparently Mphahlele recently made headlines when he publicly released a dossier alleging corruption at Prasa by its boss, Lucky Montana.
Her Tweet angered SATAWU's bosses, who then decided to suspend her. In my view this is a disgrace particularly in PR and Communication field, now its like we as PRP's are not taught not to talk/ reveal our organisation's controversial and confidential issues.I hope these will be a lesson to other up coming PRP's not to use their personal Social Media Platforms to discuss confidential issues regarding their organisations, let us utilise social media platforms in a way that will generate good positive result for our organisations.
Link http://www.citypress.co.za/Politics/News/Union-spokesperson-suspended-for-tweets-to-Vavi-Facebook-post-20120417
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i hope that we can learn from this.posting things that might put us in a difficult situation like this
ReplyDeletethis is what we call unethical public relations. i wonder what prisa is going to do with her
ReplyDeleteIt all goes with ethics. u choose to use it or not
ReplyDeleteif the suspension follow the company's code of contact then this organisation did the right thing
ReplyDeleteThis was so unethical and goes against what we learn in the field of PR and Communications. We tend to focus on the good social media can do for us and our organisations BUT for the bad it can also to us and our organisations. Hope she learnt her lesson and has taught us upcoming Public Relations Practitioners a thing or two about ethics and the principles of being a good and loyal prp to your company.
ReplyDeleteA huge disgrace indeed. I mean it was her own personal twitter page and all she did was reply to a tweet but she was wrong to tweet about information regarding th organisation she works for. She should have known bette than to release such info.
ReplyDeleteShe has definately learned her lesson because the 'tweet' sacrifised her, her job. It shows that in the communication field you have to be aware at all times of what you say or do irregardless of where you are or what platform you are using because it can end up anywhere, damaging you for good.
ReplyDeleteI hope this is a lesson to all upcoming public relations practitioners that you need to be careful of everything you post on the social media.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful lesson to us(up comming PRPs) you see why we need to stay professional irrespective of whether we are with friend or colleaques because might be speaking to a journalist and you talking negative things about your organisation...*always keep your shoes shinning... you will never know when you will meet a president(they say)
ReplyDeleteI hope this situation has taught other PRPs that some information is not supposed to be known to the publics because this might put your job in line
ReplyDeleteaha that was a serious blunder. There's a time and place for everything.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens in an organization, stays within the organization. Leaking confidential information to the public can result in serious measures being taken.
ReplyDeleteYou must be careful what you write.
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