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There is growing concern about a possible liquidation of the entity should it not be repurposed
The broadcaster has announced mass retrenchments in the wake of financial woes, but unions say workers are the victims of an uncreative board
Employees at the channel have been left stranded after it was removed from the DStv bouquet but the Communication Workers Union says it is not the end
In an effort to end strike action, the state-owned entity has answered the call for permanent jobs
Sapo chief executive Mark Barnes says the entity could not afford the 12% wage hike
The workers say they have not received a wage hike in three years. They are demanding a 12% wage increase
Kaizer Kganyago confirms staff members are still picketing outside the SABC but that, despite this, programmes have not been disrupted.
Hannes du Buisson, spokesperson for Bemawu, says that the members of the union have rejected the SABC’s proposal of a 4.5% salary increase.
Wage increases and the freedom of the embattled SABC board from political interference are the core of SABC workers’ demands.
But the Communication Workers Union has said it is consulting its legal team and plans to go ahead with the march, even it bypasses Sapo buildings.
What happens when workers are excluded from a system that is supposed to protect them? The post office strike has become a case study.
The CWU has expressed shock over the 105 retrenchment letters given to staff members and has called for the resignation of Telkom’s CEO.
Some SABC staffers say the Communication Workers’ Union’s support of its acting COO, as the "Hlaudi Motsoeneng Coalition", would badly affect workers.
The CWU has called for the public protector to resign as her report on SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng "undermines the working class".
Despite Numsa announcing that it won’t campaign for the ANC any longer, the SACP and CWU have pledged their support for the ruling party.
The Communication Workers’ Union has promised to fight the proposed offer of voluntary packages to Telkom workers.
Cosatu hits back after some of its affiliates the Communication Workers’ Union and South African Democratic Nurses’Union are deregistered.
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/ 3 February 2012
Supporters say SABC’s chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being smeared because he is rooting out corruption.
South African Post Office chief executive Motswanesi Lefoka and chief operating officer John Wentzel are being investigated for alleged corruption.
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/ 31 January 2011
The advancement of technology in the ICT sector has cost thousands of jobs in the past few years, the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) says.
The Communication Workers Union is "horror-struck by infightings" in the Communications Department led by Minister Siphiwe Nyanda.
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/ 9 November 2009
Icasa was unable to regulate the telecommunications industry, enabling operators to exploit the poor, the Communication Workers’ Union said on Monday.
Telkom and the Communication Workers’ Union on Wednesday signed a deal on a 7,5% pay rise and a two-year moratorium on forced retrenchments.
Telkom workers have been instructed to go back to work on Monday after the Communication Worker’s Union and Telkom reached an agreement.
Telkom and the Communication Workers’ Union will meet on Thursday night in a bid to end a strike, the union said.
Telkom employees in Gauteng were expected to picket outside the offices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration on Monday.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s management body has two days to meet the 12, 2% salary increase demand by unions.
SABC workers on Monday rejected the latest wage offer made to them by the broadcaster, the Media Workers’ Association of South Africa said.
The SABC’s ”no work, no pay” principle was not a threat, the CWU said on Wednesday after employees won the right to strike.
Union members were deciding whether to delay their right to strike over a pay dispute with the SABC until after the Confederations Cup, a spokesperson
A bid to halt Telkom’s sale of its 15% stake in cellular operator Vodacom was dismissed with costs in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.