Train drivers were not prepared to be "scapegoats" for Metrorail’s system failures, the United Transport and Allied Workers’ Union said on Friday.
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/ 17 February 2011
Transnet’s largest trade union said on Wednesday it was "cautiously optimistic" about the appointment Brian Molefe as the parastatal’s new CEO.
Trade union members who have been striking against Transnet were on Wednesday considering a new offer from management.
Transnet confirmed on Monday that wage talks between the transport utility and two unions faltered once again, despite the CCMA’s involvement.
Thousands of transport workers joined a national strike on Wednesday, paralysing rail and port operations in the country.
United Transport and Allied Trade Union (Utatu) members have rejected a Transnet wage-increase offer of 11%.
A train driver strike went into its fourth day on Thursday with no end in sight to a wage deadlock.
The strike by Metrorail workers is set to continue on Wednesday, with management on Tuesday stating it would not renegotiate any wage agreements.
A strike by Metrorail train drivers entered a second day on Tuesday as unionists insisted that the labour action had a ”huge impact” on services.
Transport, municipal and pharmaceutical workers across the country were set to down tools on Monday after last-minute wage talks deadlocked.
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/ 3 February 2009
Signal failure is the likely cause behind the two train crashes on Monday, Railway Safety Regulator spokesperson Kwazi Kwaza said on Tuesday.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday urged President Thabo Mbeki and national conventional arms-control committee chairperson Sydney Mufamadi to stop the transfer of arms aboard a ship, the An Yue Jiang, in Durban harbour to Zimbabwe. The ship has been at anchor off the port of Durban since Monday.
Opposition to a shipment of arms being offloaded in Durban and transported to Zimbabwe increased on Thursday when South Africa’s largest transport workers’ union announced that its members would not unload the ship. A government spokesperson said the country could not stop the shipment from getting to its destination.