Amcu will face its biggest hurdle yet as strikes in the platinum and gold industry reveal wide divisions within the union.
Five Amcu shop stewards want to meet with president Joseph Mathunjwa to discuss his allegations of corruption.
North West Premier Thandi Modise has urged Amcu to protect the rights of non-striking workers as the union prepares to go on strike later this week.
Analysts fear that as Amcu prepares to strike at two platinum mines this week, industrial action will spread to other sectors.
South Africa’s GDP growth has been only 0.7% in the third quarter of 2013, the slowest pace in more than four years.
South Africa’s economy is slowing following strikes in the motor industry, according to the BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index.
About 2 300 mineworkers have staged an underground sit-in at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) Dishaba mine.
The worker issues that sparked the Marikana unrest have still not been addressed, political analyst Steven Friedman told a Pretoria labour conference.
Strike-related damages have soared as state insurer Sasria gets its biggest claim ever – R70-million in damages after farmworker strikes in Cape Town.
Recent amendments will hamper growth and without growth, transformation is a nonstarter, Coenraad Bezuidenhout says.
The share price of the embattled mining giant remains relatively unscathed.
The recently negotiated 8% pay increase for gold miners will be a hollow victory for those who stand to lose their jobs.
Some of the season’s main strikes may be over but another wave may yet rise to hit South Africa.
The effect of strikes on exports saw the current account deficit widen by almost R5-billion.
Worker strikes at car and vehicle part manufacturers have impacted negatively on production lines at South African automakers.
The number of strikes last year in South Africa hit a five-year high, with the mining sector accounting for 82.4% of them, says the labour department.
Higher wage trends have ensured that parastatals largely avoided work stoppages this season.
Amcu members have voted to go on industrial action after rejecting an 8% wage increase offer, while Numsa members have chosen to return to work.
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A strike in the motor industry will see thousands of workers — including petrol attendants — down tools from Monday.
Two sectors participating in industrial action earn much more than the median minimum wage.
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has called for a swift end to strikes over wage increases, saying talks need not always result in industrial action.
Countrywide strikes by mining, transport and metalworkers has weakened the rand and eroded investor confidence.
Union leaders have warned that mine owners’ handling of pay talks could provoke violence in Tuesday’s strikes in the gold sector.
Workers from the automotive industry will meet to discuss revising pay demands as the strike involving 30 000 people enters its 11th day.
Explosive mining sector has brought investors’ attention to rising costs and risks.
The rand flirted briefly at its weakest level in more than two weeks after worries that job cuts in the mining sectors could spark violent protests.
South Africa is girding itself for a fresh round of labour unrest as collective wage negotiations get under way.
Small groups of workers have stopped miners at two AngloGold mines from reporting for duty and a miner is in a critical condition after being stabbed.
Nosey Pieterse says he is fully behind farmworkers who want to be liberated from their "shackles", writes Glynnis Underhill.
Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine was in a dire position as a result of unprotected labour action last year, and might have to retrench workers.
The strike by farm workers in the Western Cape has ended but negotiations will continue, says the Congress of South African Trade Unions.