Communities across the Western Cape are prepared to shut down the provincial economy if their demands to fight gangsterism are not met
Cosatu’s general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said the alliance was concerned about claims that there are talks to remove Ramaphosa
The presentations are expected to continue until Friday.
‘The shift to tyranny in SA has been accompanied by political arguments about the nature of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy’
The NUM and Nehawu are leading Zingiswa Losi’s campaign to replace S’dumo Dlamini
The department says it’s not retrenching, but treasury has the money for severance packages
The labour federation says it will not vote for the ANC in 2019 if government goes ahead with public sector job cuts and privatisation of SOEs
The trade union has called on the government to explain how it will ensure VAT exemptions result in price cuts for the products concerned
Government will have to fork out billions to implement the president’s economic growth plans
The move is in line with a reconfiguration process to drastically cut the state’s wage bill
The mining company announced its intention to go ahead with the mass retrenchments in its strategic review last Thursday
The union’s general secretary slammed ‘fallacious’ allegations of financial unaccountability
First-time offenders will be penalised and in some cases the holding companies will also be targeted
The federation wants to bring together trade unions and civil society to fight the capitalist class
The advocacy group contends that teaching should not be deemed an essential service
The ANC national executive committee member raised concerns about what he termed South Africa’s lazy approach to protecting its local industries
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The Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal wants people who live on land controlled by the Ingonyama Trust to be given individual land tenure rights
Secret donations may soon be a thing of the past if civil society groups get their way in Parliament
Disgruntled workers are expected to hand over a memorandum to the power utility’s management demanding 15% wage increases
The general secretary of a Saftu-affiliated union is being investigated for corruption
The public sector wage agreement is close to being a done deal, with 48% of workers represented by trade unions at the PSCBC supporting the offer
“Whenever there is a crisis, I’m called in to solve them, but I don’t have the legal mechanism to prevent them,” says minister.
About 40% of public sector unions have signed a three year wage offer from the department of public service and administration
Unity cannot and should not be equated to the absence of differences within the structures of the organisation
Labour minister, however, calls the approval of the National Minimum Wage Bill ‘a milestone’
More than 4 000 worker and government delegates from the organisation’s 187 member states will attend the conference to tackle a wide range of issues
The idea of ‘social justice activism’ becomes a lie when its organising spaces are fraught or abusive
Disagreements over the proposed amendments threaten to push back the implementation date of the minimum wage until after Parliament’s recess in July
The president says the process of implementing the Bill is moving ahead
Despite calls for more consultation an agreement is set to be signed on Monday
At a picket outside the Chamber of Mines on Thursday, unions called for the enforcement of safety regulations