A Chinese factory has halted production of Soccer World Cup mascot toys after an investigation into alleged sweatshop conditions.
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/ 26 February 2010
Cosatu has proposed to Parliament that a wealth tax should be imposed on the rich in order to improve the flow of revenue to the government.
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/ 12 February 2010
President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address lacked "recognition" of the unemployment crisis, Cosatu said on Thursday.
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/ 18 December 2009
Booed last week, Billy Masetlha now feels vindicated by President Jacob Zuma’s handling of affairs.
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/ 7 December 2009
Cosatu is backing a bid by apartheid victims who are suing US multinationals for the role they played in support of the regime.
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/ 27 November 2009
Cosatu has acknowledged that there is a parting of ways within the broad alliance that brought President Jacob Zuma to power.
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/ 27 November 2009
Some militant communists are gradually adopting a more pragmatic outlook.
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/ 3 November 2009
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday said the market-driven polices of the past were to blame for poor delivery.
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/ 30 October 2009
The recent service delivery protests are in part a response to the levels of inequality in society, Cosatu said on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2009
Cosatu said on Tuesday it is extremely angry at what it called Eskom’s ”outrageous and insensitive” request for a 45% a year electricity tariff hike.
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/ 12 October 2009
The unity of the ruling alliance was ”paramount and fundamental”, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday.
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday said it would not participate in KwaZulu-Natal’s first public hearing on labour brokering.
Alliance partners are pushing for participation in deployment decisions for local and provincial
government, writes Matuma Letsoalo.
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/ 21 September 2009
South Africa must do more to close the gap between rich and poor, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday at a congress of union allies.
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/ 21 September 2009
Cosatu will push for pro-poor economic policies and changes at the central bank when it meets with its members and political allies on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2009
The education department does not have the money to implement an OSD despite having signed an agreement with unions, Angie Motshekga said on Friday.
Cabinet on Thursday warned of stronger police action against the organisers and participants of violent and destructive protests.
The investigation into the mining accident at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations must be rigorous and thorough, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Friday backed a call by ANCYL president Julius Malema for mine nationalisation.
The Social Development Department and unions have agreed to implement the occupation specific dispensation, backdated to April 1 2008.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is no longer boycotting cellphone operator Vodacom because it would be a ”difficult campaign to sustain”.
Numsa will on Monday ask all Cosatu affiliates to join a national rolling mass action, should the Reserve Bank not cut interest rates.
Thursday’s ”minimal” 100 basis points repo rate cut will do little to help with economic recovery in the country, Cosatu said.
The High Court in Pretoria on Sunday ruled in favour of Vodacom and dismissed the application by Cosatu and Icasa to prevent its listing on the JSE.
Cellphone giant Vodacom will face telecommunications regulator Icasa and union federation Cosatu in the Pretoria High Court on Sunday.
The decision of Icasa to rescind its ruling on Telkom South Africa’s sale of its Vodacom shares to Vodafone was welcomed by Icasa on Friday.
Communist Blade Nzimande was made Minister of Higher Education because he was a revolutionary, metalworkers heard in Boksburg on Tuesday.
Numsa leaders launched a scathing attack against Cope on Monday, saying its founders had inferiority complexes and were ”honorary whites”.
Investors will be looking to the composition of SA’s new Cabinet as a clue to the future policy direction, financial services group Nomura says.
An election rally in honour of freedom fighter Chris Hani on Saturday was turned into a day of mudslinging by the alliance partners of the ANC.
Ex-Cosatu president Willie Madisha announced on Thursday that a new trade union movement is to be launched on March 28 in Gauteng.
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/ 26 February 2009
Cosatu on Thursday expressed concern about companies using the global financial meltdown as an excuse to cut jobs and maximise profits.