Benefits allegedly include flights for holidays in Cuba, furnished accommodation, food, clothing, internet and extra money to make landline calls to Cuba
Trade union will continue its application against the water department’s decision to employ 25 Cuban engineers, valued at more than R18-million a year
Solidarity has confirmed that police are investigating charges of incitement to public violence and intimidation it laid against Julius Malema.
Solidarity is taking SANBS to court hoping to set a precedent applying to companies that employ "the principle of absolute exclusion based on race".
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/ 22 February 2011
Research charging that coloureds in the Western Cape and Indians in KwaZulu-Natal stood to lose thousands of jobs was rejected by the ANC on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2011
The ANC on Wednesday condemned the "cold-blooded murder" of the uncle of trade union Solidarity’s deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann on his farm.
One of the policemen involved in a highway confrontation with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is laying a charges against her and her bodyguard.
Trade union Solidarity has produced a documentary in which victims of crime speak about their ordeals, it said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 February 2010
Trade union Solidarity’s anti-crime campaign will take another step on Tuesday when it delivers 16 000 letters to President Jacob Zuma.
Solidarity union launched an anti-crime campaign at the weekend aimed at sending at least 10
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/ 23 December 2008
Mining deaths have dropped by 23% despite the absence of a presidential audit report, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 December 2008
Retrenchments in the South African mining industry could be reduced by 40% to 60%, Solidarity deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2008
Trade union Solidarity said on Monday that it expects many things will start going right for the country in 2009.
A skills shortage at Eskom could affect its expansion plans, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday. ”Eskom’s current skills shortages are already causing problems, but if the levels of alienation among Eskom staff are any indication, the company is heading for a crisis,” said the union’s Dirk Hermann.
Gold Fields will shut down all operations at its South Deep, Kloof, and Driefontein mines in order to conduct an inspection of the ropes on mine hoists. This follows the deaths of nine workers, who plunged 58m down a shaft when a rope on their conveyance snapped at the Gold Fields South Deep mine near Randfontein on Thursday morning.
A power cut disrupted proceedings at a briefing in Pretoria on Thursday involving possible class action against Eskom. Lights went off at the briefing hosted by trade union Solidarity shortly before 12.30pm. The briefing discussed the possibility of class action against Eskom over possible job losses as a result of the power crisis.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma expressed surprise at the level of poverty among white people during a tour of an informal settlement outside Pretoria on Friday. ”I did not think it was at this level,” he said as he talked with the small, poor white community living at Bethlehem.
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/ 25 February 2008
Trade union Solidarity on Monday began to publish a series of national advertisements announcing the death of affirmative action. Deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said the advertisements would appear in the classified sections of Beeld, Business Day, Citizen and in Volksblad on Tuesday.
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/ 10 January 2008
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will meet heads of private hospital groups to discuss drastic hospital tariff increases, the Health Department said on Thursday. The meeting would take place on Friday to discuss the tariff increases from 8% to 33%, ”well above the general inflation rate”, said department spokesperson Charity Bhengu.
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/ 12 September 2007
Petrochemical giant Sasol’s announcement that it plans to transfer 10% of its issued share capital, worth close on R18-billion, into black hands has inspired mixed messages from trade unions. The Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union on Tuesday "cautiously welcomed" the news.