The presidential jobs summit failed to yield a moratorium from big business on job cuts, sending labour back to the drawing board
Treasury will consider partnerships with the private sector to extend some of SA’s infrastructure build despite it being politically impossible.
The trade union federation has pinpointed transformation of South Africa’s economy as the long-term solution to curbing violent strikes and protests.
Cosatu has denied any involvement in leaking suspended general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s charge sheet to the media.
The suspended Cosatu general secretary has received a charge sheet from the trade union federation, five months after being put on special leave.
Major companies like Amazon are looking to outsource their call centres to SA, listing South Africans’ "English premium voice quality" as ideal.
Cosatu says it is "shocked and angry" over the lengthy strike by petrol attendants and vehicle industry workers.
Cosatu gathered hundreds of people to march through the streets of the Jo’burg city centre against e-tolling.
The ANC has asked the Democratic Alliance to abandon its "mind-boggling" decision to march on Cosatu’s head office in the Johannesburg city centre.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it will continue its fight against the e-tolling project until the tolls have "finally been scrapped".
The SA National Roads has been interdicted and restrained from levying and collecting tolls, the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Saturday.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says he won’t meet Democratic Alliance MP Lindiwe Mazibuko to discuss a proposed youth wage subsidy.
Cosatu has said it is not in disarray after an advert in the <i>Sowetan</i> by Numsa dealt with federation leader Zwelinzima Vavi’s succession.
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has called on unions to focus on the issues and not use strikes to further the call for a ban on labour brokers.
President Jacob Zuma needs to allay fears the country is fast becoming a "corruption-ridden banana republic", Cosatu has said.
The huge pay hikes of SA’s top 40 executives (an average increase of over 23%) are unacceptable while workers fight for reasonable wages, says Cosatu.
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of a "new trajectory for land reform in South Africa" is nothing new, according to trade unionists.
The "real left" will close ranks against right-wing demagogues who try to mobilise the youth using pseudo-left rhetoric, Cosatu and the SACP say.
Cosatu has threatened to challenge the "secrecy" Bill in court if it is passed without changes to ensure transparency and protect whistle-blowers.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has said that print media coverage of the recent local government elections was mostly biased.
Cosatu warned on Thursday that it would "mobilise" its members for protest action if the government did not address the looming water crisis soon.
Cosatu said on Monday it was "extremely concerned" about the sacking of Estate Agency Affairs Board CEO Nomonde Mapetla.
A summit with its alliance partners tops the agenda for discussion when the Congress of South African Trade Unions leadership meets next week.
Reducing women to sex symbols for the pleasure of men was an insult to everything the ANC stood for, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
Cosatu is to seek clarification from the ANC on reports that it was backtracking on its stated intention to create "decent work".
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/ 18 January 2011
Call me "ultra-critical" if you will, but I couldn’t help wincing at an extract from a Cosatu birthday card to the ANC.
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/ 18 January 2011
Cosatu has rejected a statement by the DA that proposed amendments to labour legislation would result in job losses, as "a myth".
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/ 11 January 2011
The government’s new growth path, unveiled late last year, was not enough to transform South Africa’s economy, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Tuesday pledged its "undying support" to the ANC.
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/ 20 September 2010
Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.
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/ 17 September 2010
Cosatu-affiliated union Popcru on Friday took exception to an <i>M&G</i> article about a fake Facebook profile of Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
South Africa still has a lot to achieve before all South Africans are really free, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Monday.