Several affiliates of the trade union federation have told the ANC they want Numsa expelled.
The metalworkers’ union seems to be attacking the networks of patronage created under President Jacob Zuma’s administration.
The metalworkers’ union is seeking an official probe of contracts awarded by the transport parastatal.
The ‘rebel’ union says its estranged umbrella body is looking for a scapegoat for its leadership woes.
Numsa will be starting its own workers party as it says South Africa’s working class is disillusioned with the ANC and has been left "leaderless".
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s mooted Movement for Socialism party is to contest the 2016 municipal elections.
Barely a month after the ANC intervened to broker truce within the embattled labour federation, unions have taken the Cosatu president to court.
Zwelenzima Vavi tells workers in PE to take control of their future, while in Polokwane, Zuma and the ANC take centre stage at Cosatu’s massive rally.
Tripartite alliance leaders lambasted Numsa during a march to defend the ANC called by the SACP and Cosatu.
Cosatu’s special central executive committee meeting will go ahead despite Numsa asking the trade union federation to postpone it.
Trade union federation president S’dumo Dlamini says Cosatu is going through a difficult period as the battle over Zwelinzima Vavi continues.
Amplats says a wage offer accepted by Numsa and the Uasa will be applied to all employees in the Numsa bargaining unit.
Numsa’s first attempt to mobilise a cross-platform movement in the left wing highlighted some of the cracks that could widen and deepen with time.
About 2 000 Numsa members marched for jobs on the National Economic Development and Labour Council premises in Rosebank.
Youth unemployment in South Africa is the third highest in the world, says the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.
Fractures in Cosatu and Numsa’s ambitions could see increased disputes and spiralling strike action.
Numsa has responded to Cosatu about why it should not be expelled, says union president Andrew Chirwa.
Numsa members at a national bargaining conference have heard that the lives of working class people in SA have not changed for the better since 1994.
Demands for the reinstatement of suspended Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi undermine its internal processes, it said on Tuesday.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa will not contest this year’s election as a political party, taking the year to gather its thoughts.
Numsa says it will, "at the appropiate time", launch a political party – United Front and Movement for Socialism – aimed at uniting the working class.
Cosatu has cautiously welcomed Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech, while Numsa reiterated its rejection of the employment tax incentive scheme.
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Numsa says it won’t respond to Cosatu’s demands about whether the union should be suspended or expelled until it received certain documentation.
The National Union of Mineworkers has hit out at metalworkers’ union Numsa for "attacking and making threats" against Cosatu.
Nine unions have accussed Cosatu’s leadership of wanting to please political masters and manipulating a central executive committee meeting.
Threats of suspension or expulsion have failed to shake the nine Cosatu affiliates that want the union federation’s president Sdumo Dlamini removed.
Numsa leader Irvin Jim has threatened to take Cosatu to court over its central committee’s refusal to hold a special national congress.
The Cosatu central executive committee has decided not to hold a special congress, despite a request from nine of the federation’s affiliates.
Negotiations between the world’s three largest platinum producers and the majority union have stalled as protest actions ensue in the North West.
The world’s largest platinum miner says job cuts are in store to reverse losses as pressure mounts at the mines which can least afford it.