Communication Workers Union

The 19 employees are battling for reinstatement and backpay after being dismissed during an outsourcing and labour dispute

The employees have won an appeal against WNS after being unfairly dismissed during the implementation of a labour outsourcing agreement

It highlights that changes need to be made in their operation, experts say

Having struggled to keep up with changing markets, the two entities under the department of communications are in states of financial disrepair

There is growing concern about a possible liquidation of the entity should it not be repurposed

The broadcaster has announced mass retrenchments in the wake of financial woes, but unions say workers are the victims of an uncreative board

Employees at the channel have been left stranded after it was removed from the DStv bouquet but the Communication Workers Union says it is not the end

In an effort to end strike action, the state-owned entity has answered the call for permanent jobs

Sapo chief executive Mark Barnes says the entity could not afford the 12% wage hike

The workers say they have not received a wage hike in three years. They are demanding a 12% wage increase

Kaizer Kganyago confirms staff members are still picketing outside the SABC but that, despite this, programmes have not been disrupted.

Hannes du Buisson, spokesperson for Bemawu, says that the members of the union have rejected the SABC’s proposal of a 4.5% salary increase.

Wage increases and the freedom of the embattled SABC board from political interference are the core of SABC workers’ demands.

But the Communication Workers Union has said it is consulting its legal team and plans to go ahead with the march, even it bypasses Sapo buildings.

What happens when workers are excluded from a system that is supposed to protect them? The post office strike has become a case study.