The trade union rejects Senzo Mchunu’s ‘stunt’ on asking the public to weigh in on public sector wage bill
With lockdown regulations in place, default industrial action methods need to be sidelined and new ways of protest considered
Strikes over poor working conditions have intensified over the past four years, the recently-released Industrial Action Report for 2018 reveals. From 2014 to 2018, the number of days spent striking over working conditions rose from 1776 to 128890 — an increase of more than 7000%, according to the report, which tracks the frequency and character […]
The union’s financial and governance woes have not blunted the tools it has to paralyse municipalities, such as going on strike
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The parastatal’s management team is holding an emergency meeting on Thursday morning to address the possibility of load shedding
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The union rejected a wage hike offer but its main demand is for certain workers to be declared non-essential and to have the right to strike.
The big question is: Will people vote for another party, or will it be protests and strikes as usual?
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Sapo employees want the government to bail out the troubled postal service and are threatening another strike, leaving mail’s future in the balance.
Striking workers at a Swazi mine co-owned by ANC-linked investment company Chancellor House and King Mswati III fear "a second Marikana".
A group of magazine publishers has complained to Icasa that the post office breached its licence condition, and is looking for a new distributor.
Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele has allegedly asked the Sapo board to resign or be fired, and a new administrator is waiting in the wings.
A new report says platinum mines could have afforded to pay workers more.
The purchasing managers index has dropped to a near five-year low as a four-month long strike in the platinum belt continues.
Eskom may not have enough power during peak hours for platinum mines in the Rustenburg area to resume operations when the strike is finally resolved.
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The new mineral resources minister begins his tenure with a difficult task – seeking a solution to the country’s longest ever mines strike.
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The top three platinum producers have agreed to further court-mediated talks with Amcu in yet another attempt to reach agreement on wages.
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Platinum belt miners are angry and glaring wage inequality is at the root of their dissatisfaction.
Rapula Moatshe is swept into a march of defiant mineworkers on their way back from the now sacred Marikana koppie.
The bid by aggrieved farmers to starve out the state has been met with tanks and troops ahead of the presidential election on May 25.
Hunger gnaws at their resolve, but striking miners won’t be swayed from their R12 500 goal.
The rand was slightly firmer on Monday morning after a mixed US employment report on Friday spurred intense price action.
The mineworkers’ union is back at the table with platinum producers in an attempt to end the now two-week mineworker strike.
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Government mediators have placed an offer on the table that they hope will end the platinum strike.
Government mediators have placed an offer on the table that they hope will end the platinum strike.
Talks between Amcu and mine executives are scheduled to continue after the union rejected the latest wage offer.
The fight for a right to strike in the country’s gold mines will continue, says labour union Amcu after an interdict ban.
Striking mine workers retaliated to being sprayed with water cannons by pelting security officials at the Khuseleka mine in Rustenburg with stones.
A planned Amcu strike in the gold sector could go ahead after an application to prevent it has been postponed by the Labour Court.
While Solidarity says a strike by Amcu members would yield no results, the labour minister says the market is entering a turbulent period.
Amcu will face its biggest hurdle yet as strikes in the platinum and gold industry reveal wide divisions within the union.