The Communication Workers Union on Friday remained adamant that the post office strike planned for next week was still on. CWU spokesperson Shakes Gonyane said that union negotiators were busy consulting with lawyers in response to the post office attempt to get a court interdict to stop the strike.
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/ 23 September 2004
Tourism is the only resource with the potential to create thousands of employment opportunities in a short space of time, while in other sectors of the economy, people are either dismissed or retrenched. This is according to United Association of South Africa (Uasa) support services general manager Leon Grobler.
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/ 21 September 2004
Wednesday will be D-Day for public-sector unions and the government to come to an agreement on salary increases as the two parties participate in a formal meeting at the Public Services Coordinating Bargaining Council. Anton Louwrens of the Public Servants Association said unions are canvassing their members on the latest government offer.
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/ 21 September 2004
South Africa’s state-owned defence and aerospace group Denel has been awarded contracts amounting to $2-million (about R13-million) to supply aircraft tooling for the production of the Indian Air Force’s new BAE Systems Hawk advanced jet-trainer aircraft. The South African-manufactured tooling will be exported to India.
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/ 16 September 2004
South African economists have different opinions on the impact of Thursday’s public-sector strike on the economy overall. T-Sec economist Mike Schussler contends that the South African public-sector wage bill is relatively too high for a developing country, and this is a major problem.
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/ 14 September 2004
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), the Fuel Retailers’ Association and the Retail Motor Industry will on Tuesday sign a three-year wage deal. The wage agreement will cushion the wages of motor-retail workers by 7,5% and will cover 180 000 workers.
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/ 7 September 2004
With a couple of days left before South African matriculants start their final examinations, a strike by public servants planned for September 16 could deal a heavy blow to examination preparations. Close to 400 000 public servants will embark on a one-day strike on September 16.
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/ 3 September 2004
The trade union Solidarity on Friday said it finds it regrettable that oil and chemicals group Sasol has not invited organised labour to join in the internal inquiry into the recent explosion at its Secunda ethylene plant. The death toll from the blast on Wednesday at Sasol Secunda ethylene plant remains at six.
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/ 2 September 2004
Volkswagen South Africa’s (VWSA) plant in Uitenhage produced more than 9 900 cars in August, which resulted in an all-time production record, the company said on Thursday. "We also anticipate an all-time annual production record in 2004," VWSA communication general manager Bill Stephens noted.
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/ 1 September 2004
Trade union Solidarity on Wednesday claimed that more than 30Â 000 activists and trade union members worldwide will be mustered this week against dual-listed telecommunication giant Telkom’s planned retrenchments. The London-based website <i>Labour Start</i> contains an exposition of the planned retrenchment of 4Â 181 Telkom workers.