The battle for Cosatu is on a knife edge. This week its central committee postponed debates as lobby groups pulled it in different directions.
Cosatu’s membership has grown 3.8%, but its secretariat report shows this is due to an increase in the membership of its public-service unions.
Report says the South African Communist Party is in disarray and its leaders are after government positions.
The relationship between Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the ANC Youth League may play a crucial role in Vavi’s political career.
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of a "new trajectory for land reform in South Africa" is nothing new, according to trade unionists.
Corruption Watch, the Cosatu-backed anticorruption initiative, will focus on both the private and public sectors, says its executive David Lewis.
The Competition Tribunal has criticised the government’s call for procurement quotas to apply to the Walmart-Massmart merger.
Cosatu has ended its central committee meeting without resolving its stance on key issues such as nationalisation, land reform or the ANC succession.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the National Health Insurance system will be phased in over 14 years.
Ruling party leaders under President Zuma risk losing Cosatu’s support if they do not pull up their socks, the trades union says.
Blade Nzimande has fiercely defended the role of the SACP, which has been harshly criticised by alliance partners for failing the working class.
President Zuma has launched a veiled attack on Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi and other alliance leaders for criticising the ANC and government in public.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has said employment and unemployment trends continue to disappoint.
Zwelinzima Vavi has thrown Cosatu’s weight behind President Zuma, but warned a corrupt, conservative elite was using the ANC to push its own agenda.
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Sactwu officials say that about 20 000 workers are affected by the missing pension funds, but others claim many more workers stand to lose.
Young people in South Africa live in terrible socioeconomic conditions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has said.
Cosatu is expected to make a decision at its next central committee meeting on whether to back the re-election of Jacob Zuma as ANC president in 2012.
Cosatu says it is going to "name and shame" corrupt politicians and government officials in Limpopo next week.
The ANC submission on the Information Bill appears to have been written by the adviser to the security minister.
Cosatu has threatened to challenge the "secrecy" Bill in court if it is passed without changes to ensure transparency and protect whistle-blowers.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has said that print media coverage of the recent local government elections was mostly biased.
The decision to force through anti-democratic secrecy laws marks a striking retreat from SA’s post-1994 legislative tradition.
Unless drastic action is taken to reduce unemployment, South Africa risks facing another 1976 uprising, says Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi.
Tony Ehrenreich has one dominant concern in Cape Town: putting social justice first.
The Walmart/Massmart merger hearing continued on Monday as a former Walmart executive was grilled on the company’s perceived hostility towards unions.
The Cape Chamber of Commerce says Cosatu actually makes the unemployment situation worse with its unreasonable demands for wage increases.
The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions was "extremely concerned" on Tuesday about the manner in which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed.
The importance of a strong tripartite alliance was the rallying call of leaders addressing Cosatu’s May Day rally in Cape Town on Sunday.
Patricia de Lille says the same rules apply to all when
it comes to hiring the Cape Town Stadium.
Members of Popcru are fed up with inaction over alleged graft and mismanagement among its leaders and say they are taking over all Popcru’s offices.
Samwu’s plans to down tools days before the election is ‘in poor taste’, says the ANC.