The agreement between unions and the state on a 7% increase for government workers will spare President Jacob Zuma blushes ahead of Mangaung.
Unless reliable, quantifiable data is publicly available, reports cannot be taken seriously, writes Brian Ashley and Dick Forslund.
She’s renowned as a union buster, but Lindiwe Sisulu must somehow keep state workers from embarking on a crippling strike, without budging on wages.
Wage talks between the South African Municipal Workers’ Union and the South African Local Government Association have begun in Boksburg.
Gold miners will join the nationwide industrial action this week and threaten supply of the precious metal at a time when gold is at a record high.
The issue of how we can grow the economy in a way that creates jobs and includes the poor has been lost in the jostle for monetary gains.
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.
The National Union of Mineworkers hopes to secure a 14% pay hike this week at its wage discussions with the Chamber of Mines, which has offered 4%.
Wage negotiations in the country’s chemical sector have deadlocked over 1%, the trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday.
Cosatu on Wednesday announced that the public sector strike was over, even though no deal had been signed with the government.
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/ 9 September 2010
As teachers trickled back to work after their strike was suspended on Monday, unions looked to be heading for a showdown over the no work, no pay rule
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/ 6 September 2010
One of Sadtu’s most militant leaders, Ronald Nyathi, has indicated that the teacher’s strike could be soon be over because his region has accepted the state’s revised wage offer.
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/ 2 September 2010
The DA has questioned the department of basic education’s ability to ensure that the no-work, no-pay rule for striking teachers is enforced.
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/ 2 September 2010
The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.
Signs of a split in unions’ response to government’s latest wage offer emerged on Tuesday, with Sadtu suggesting they could reject the offer.
The threat of strike action by 1,3-million civil servants– including teachers — is looming after unions rejected the state’s "revised" wage offer.
Those with jobs emerge as a major new force,
but it’s at the expense of the unemployed.
The public service and administration department said on Monday it would be meeting unions again this week in a bid to avert a potential strike.
The National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) leaders have voted to go on strike at Eskom from next week.
There is no danger of a strike at Eskom while salary talks continue, the power utility said on Monday.
In a bid to avert industrial action during the remainder of the Fifa World Cup, the NUM said it had given Eskom until Friday to revise its wage offer.
An Eskom strike during the World Cup was still a possibility as the power provider’s negotiations with trade unions ended in disagreement on Monday.
Eskom on Tuesday appointed Brian Dames as its new chief executive, the power utility said in a statement.
Workers at power utility Eskom could go on strike by Thursday if their demands for an 18% wage hike are not met, a union spokesperson said on Monday.
There are no signs of an end to the dispute between Satawu and the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa, the union said on Wednesday.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union on Monday issued secondary strike notices to several port-related companies, an official said.
Metrorail trains will be running in Gauteng from Monday following a strike that left thousands of commuters stranded nationwide last week.
Train commuters will have to wait until Monday for Metrorail trains as one of the transport unions had not signed a deal with Parsa by Thursday night.
Two national strikes by transport unions that have disrupted economic activity and left commuters stranded for days could be over by Friday.
Unions have reached a proposed wage deal with Transnet, which if accepted by members will end a strike that paralysed rail and port traffic.
Train commuters will be left stranded on Monday due to a nation-wide strike by transport unions, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA said on Monday.
Transnet employees are expected to march in Johannesburg on Friday morning as a strike over wage negotiations continues.