Violence accompanying the Satawu strike was condemned by the Gauteng minister of community safety, Firoz Cachalia, on Thursday.
Talks to resolve a pay dispute with Satawu members would continue on Tuesday, the Road Freight Employers’ Association said.
About 5 000 Gauteng taxi operators and drivers on Tuesday threatened to "cripple the economy" if their demands are not met within seven days.
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/ 20 February 2009
South African Airways (SAA) workers embarked on a strike on Friday in a dispute over the payment of premiums and labour brokers, the airline said.
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/ 16 February 2009
A national protected strike in the road freight and logistics sector is set for March 15, Satawu said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 7 February 2009
The man at the centre of this week’s crippling strike by Johannesburg metro police, Chris Ngcobo, referred to himself as the ”god of the JMPD.
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/ 4 February 2009
Samwu is sending a ”strong warning” to substitute employees from provincial licensing centres to not undermine the JMPD strike.
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/ 4 February 2009
Salary-dispute protests at the Tshwane University of Technology continued on Wednesday amid talk of a deadlock between the union and management.
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/ 3 February 2009
On Tuesday Jo’burg municipality spokesperson Nthatisi Modingoane said calls to oust the city’s metro police chief were not central to strike talks.
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/ 12 January 2009
Zimbabwe doctors in public hospitals have vowed to maintain their strike until their demand for better pay is met, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 10 October 2008
Woolworths workers will continue picketing on Friday while the retailer considers a counter-proposal submitted by Saccawu.
Lev David: I’m not panicking. We’re fine for now. And, just in case, we’re stocking up on tinned food, the way we did in ’94.
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/ 16 September 2008
Listed retailer Woolworths maintains that the vast majority of its employees do not wish to belong to a union — but one union disagrees.
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/ 12 September 2008
Retailer Woolworths said on Friday that the effects of the day’s industrial action at its Cape Town stores had been minimal.
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/ 5 September 2008
A strike by about 300 Express Air Services cargo workers entered its second day on Friday at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.
More than 700 NUM members at the Helem diamond mine in Swartruggens near Rustenburg have downed tools to demand better wages, the union says.
Police fired rubber bullets at striking workers at a clay and cement factory in Westonaria on Monday, according to the National Union of Mineworkers.
Recent media reports of a strike at Pick n Pay were incorrect, the company said on Monday. There has, in fact, been a strike at a Pick n Pay supplier.
Thousands of Cosatu members marched through South Africa’s cities on Wednesday in protest against the rising cost of living.
Masses of workers supported a national strike against rising living costs on Wednesday, paralysing transport services and immobilising businesses.
Telkom said on Friday that only about 2 500 employees, or 16% of those represented in wage talks, had heeded union calls to down tools.
Trade unions challenge the ANC leadership to adopt policy changes promised at Polokwane
Johannesburg metro police and the South African Municipal Workers’ Union on Monday signed an agreement on wages and wage scales for metro officers.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday it would intensify strikes already planned for July if the interest rate is increased later in the day.
About 8 000 members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) are to continue striking in Ekurhuleni on Monday, said the union.
Traffic in central Johannesburg came to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of South African Municipal Workers’ Union members marched through the city’s streets.
With government workers asking for higher wage increases than the 10,5% announced on Wednesday, the spectre of strikes and second-round inflationary effects looms.
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/ 7 February 2007
As Zimbabwe’s disgruntled doctors continue their strike, concern is growing about how the prolonged stayaway is affecting HIV-positive patients.
Fiona Macleod Tribal chiefs in charge of a private game reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal are determined to save Sahib, the mighty African elephant bull stranded in exile in a German circus. The chiefs came forward this week to offer Sahib sanctuary in their community-run reserve, after Northern Province conservation officials rejected the Mayibuye Sahib project […]
Three patients in an intensive care unit were among those detained after a clash between striking workers and police at Garankuwa Hospital.