A festive atmosphere reigned at Johannesburg’s Mary Fitzgerald Square as Samwu members danced ahead of a march through the city centre on Thursday.
Samwu leaders will meet their employer, the SA Local Government Association (Salga), on Wednesday to try to resolve an ongoing national strike.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union nationwide strike continued on Wednesday, and would do so indefinitely, a spokesperson said.
The SA Local Government Association has withdrawn its Labour Court application to halt a nationwide strike by municipal workers.
Thousands of striking South African municipal workers took to the streets on Monday, demanding higher wages.
Traffic in the Johannesburg city centre was disrupted on Monday as Samwu members marched to hand over a memorandum of their demands.
Cosatu will on Thursday give Nedlac notice of its intention to strike over the 25% Eskom tariff increases.
The Independent Democrats on Sunday called on Nedlac to negotiate a "strike free period" during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
The National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday it had cancelled plans for an indefinite strike at Gold Fields’s operations in the country.
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/ 27 January 2010
A Metrorail strike by members of the Satawu is set to end — at least temporarily — following a court interdict, the union said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 January 2010
Zimbabwean state teachers and health workers threatened on Wednesday to strike over low pay, in a move that would paralyse public services.
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/ 18 December 2009
British Airways won a high court battle on Thursday to prevent cabin crew staging a 12-day walkout.
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/ 14 September 2009
DRDGOLD said on Monday it had reached a wage settlement with UASA, but may face a strike over pay by members of the NUM.
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/ 2 September 2009
Workers at Impala Platinum will hold a meeting to weigh the latest pay offer after talks meant to resolve a strike failed to reach agreement.
Impala Platinum said on Tuesday a strike by workers had halted its largest operation in South Africa.
Satawu on Monday distanced itself from a countrywide Metrorail strike after reaching an agreement with the commuter rail service.
Eskom on Thursday confirmed that a wage agreement had been reached with representative unions, thereby averting a threatened strike.
Workers at Telkom will strike on into next week after unions walked away from talks to end the latest in a round of damaging industrial disputes.
Telkom has plans in place should its employees embark on strike action, the telecommunications provider said on Monday.
The five-day strike by South Africa’s municipal workers is over, Samwu and Imatu said on Friday.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) raised its wage increase offer to employees to 10% on Friday, the broadcaster said.
President Jacob Zuma apparently doesn’t have time to deal with the service delivery protests racking the country.
Wasteful expenditure by local government undermines claims that the 15% wage increase demanded by workers could negatively affect the economy.
There was a festive atmosphere at the SABC offices in Auckland Park on Thursday, where striking workers picketed along the sidewalk.
Samwu, whose members have been on strike since Monday, on Thursday rejected the employer’s latest wage offer.
Unions representing municipal workers were inching closer to a wage deal, an official said ahead of a meeting with the employer on Thursday.
Samwu on Wednesday dismissed criticism of its members trashing city streets as ”class-based responses”.
Strike action at both the SABC and Telkom has been brought forward, the Communication Workers’ Union said on Tuesday.
Johannesburg motorists have been warned to steer clear of the CBD on Tuesday as a protest by municipal workers over low wages is set to continue.
A strike by Metrorail workers was suspended on Monday after a new wage offer was tabled, union officials said.
Thousands of municipal workers went on strike on Monday to press for wage hikes in a move expected to cripple public services nationwide.
South African municipal workers are to strike over wages from Monday, unions said, in a move that could hit public services.