The Reserve Bank’s monetary policy is out of line with the ANC alliance’s focus on employment creation, wrties Numsa’s Irvin Jim.
Matuma Letsoalo spoke to Numsa’s Irvin Jim on some of the union’s resolutions that could affect the outcome of the upcoming ANC policy conference.
Ahead of the ANC policy conference, Cosatu’s second-largest affiliate is flexing its muscles – calling for nationalisation and radical land reform.
Numsa president Cedric Gina has stated that the planned youth wage subsidy will only stand to line the pockets of "unpatriotic" employers.
Unfortunately there is a dearth of hybridised individuals in leadership positions, writes Caroline Southey.
Unions, the ANCYL and YCL have vowed to disrupt a DA-led march on Cosatu’s headquarters, warning it will mark the beginning of "open class warfare".
A qualified audit is playing into the hands of a mineworkers’ union faction vying for control.
Numsa General Secretary Irvin Jim has warned the DA and "white capitalist class" that "if they now want direct confrontation, they will get it".
Trade unions Satawu and Numsa have welcomed the suspension of pay increases for chief executives and board members of parastatals.
President Jacob Zuma has called on workers to become active participants in the shaping of ANC policy. (Just don’t mention the e-tolling plans).
Enoch Godongwana has quit as a deputy minister amid a scandal over missing unionists’ pension funds. We trace his rise and fall in SA politics.
Thobile Ntola, the president of Sadtu, criticised the info Bill publicly without debating it within the teachers’ union, leaders say.
In a veiled rebuke for Blade Nzimande, Numsa has warned alliance leaders against trying to score political points through "cheap innuendo".
A mammoth court battle between employers and SA’s largest bargaining council is set to have huge ramifications for labour and wage hike processes.
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/ 23 September 2011
Tensions between Cosatu’s National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metal Workers of SA have now spilled over to the SABC.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Saturday denied reports that he was asked to provide security for Numsa secretary general Irvin Jim.
Numsa is convinced Irvin Jim’s leadership ambition is placing his life in danger.
Numsa has added its voice to criticism of SA’s granting of a R2.4-billion loan to Swaziland, slamming the ‘"tyranny" of "hyena" King Mswati’s regime.
Strike season is in full swing. Here’s a breakdown of which industry sectors are experiencing strike action this weekend.
Numsa has denied it reached a wage deal with steel and engineering firms and says the strike has not been called off.
As the country reels from twin strikes by the metal and chemical worker unions, a further strike is looming by nearly a million members of Cosatu.
<i>M&G</i> photographer <b>Oupa Nkosi</b> arrived in the industrial area of Alrode in Alberton to a sea of disgruntled workers.
Numsa has rubbished reports of unprecedented levels of violence during its nationwide strike, now in its second week.
Unions have vowed to step up their nationwide strike action, with mass marches planned in Johannesburg and Durban to highlight their demands.
Police have said two people were injured after a supervisor at a Krugersdorp engineering company allegedly shot at striking protestors.
Numsa boss Irvin Jim, who is leading the national metal and engineering workers’ union wage strike, has been touted as a possible successor to Vavi.
The petroleum, chemical and mining industries — key sectors in the economy — are bracing themselves for rolling mass action starting next week.
The nationwide strike by 170 000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA is expected to bring the steel industry to a standstill.
In the municipal elections citizens can choose between candidates to lead them at local level. But for organisations such as Cosatu there is no choice
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/ 10 February 2011
Trade unions on Thursday criticised the Democratic Alliance for reportedly blacklisting <i>Sowetan</i> newspaper reporter, Anna Majavu.
Metal workers union has added its voice to rejection of government’s new growth path.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says the ANC’s criticism of Cosatu’s civil society conference was not motivated by paranoia.