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Some Randburg suburbs have gone more than two weeks without refuse collection. (X  Yamkeleka Manjeya
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Refuse collection uneven in Randburg as Pikitup and workers trade blame

Some Randburg suburbs have gone more than two weeks without refuse collection as Pikitup and striking casual workers trade blame over service disruptions at the Randburg depot

FlySafair said the price of jet fuel at local airports rose by about 70% in just one week, following a surge in global oil prices.
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Flysafair reaches wage deal with pilots, ending strike

According to union Solidarity, pilots will receive salary increases of between 6% and 6.9% over the next four years

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have argued that judges should also undergo lifestyle audits.

Word ‘boer’ not racist or racially offensive — ConCourt

This was the unanimous judgment of the Constitutional Court on Thursday following a labour dispute

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela makes a presentation to members of the NCOP Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of State Information Bill in Parliament.

Fired drivers say Unitrans’s settlement offer is a slap in the face

The union says it will settle for nothing short of the court ruling, which is that all the workers must be re-employed and given back pay.

Minister asked to revoke language board’s dismissals

Split SA Language Board pleads with Parliament to act on the dismissal of 49 employees

Editorial: Trust is key to a new labour deal

Nobody wants a repeat of Marikana’s bloody August 16 2012. But what measures are being put in place to prevent that?

Amplats management unsure of striking miners’ demands

Underground protest action at Amplats’s Tumela mine in Limpopo is continuing, but management says it still does not know what miners’ demands are.

A successful challenge by ­employers to the extension of a wage agreement in the engineering industry to non-parties is one of three such challenges being mounted this year.

Labour: Bargaining council barneys

Three cases have challenged the ability of centralised bargaining to apply decisions to non-parties. Teigue Payne reports.

Give credit where credit’s due

The farm worker protests in recent weeks in some areas of the wine-producing region of the Western Cape are troubling and, in some cases, misdirected.

Even when their brutality is caught on camera and shown on television, officers seem to walk away scot-free

Zuma: Zille must work with ministers on farm protests

Western Cape premier Helen Zille must approach national ministers to assist in provincial farmworker labour unrest, President Jacob Zuma has said.

Amplats strikers have chased away a group of Cosatu members who arrived to support them during their strike.

Rubber bullets, teargas fired after Amplats blaze

Police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse around 1 000 people at Amplats’ Rustenburg operation after a power sub-station was set alight.

Retired US labour leader Andy Stern has warned of the dangers of unions losing touch with their members.

Blurring of boundaries exists in US unions too

There can’t be many other outsiders as qualified to hold forth on the labour movement in SA than Andy Stern, who was here on a flying visit this week.

Labour issues which led to a one-day strike on August 2 had not been resolved and the union would strike again on August 28

Wits set for another one-day strike

The Academic Staff Association says a second one-day strike by academic and support staff is to hit Wits University next week.

Baby Kruger’s nanny fired

The nanny of baby Marzanne Kruger was going to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) after being fired by her employer.

Emergency services mum on wage talks

Johannesburg Emergency Services management was keeping mum on Wednesday about an ongoing salary dispute with its workers.

Sasol, Engen unions declare wage dispute

Sasol, PetroSA and Engen trade unions have declared a dispute with their employers after wage talks broke down, Solidarity said on Friday.

Busa to intervene in Woolworths dispute

Business Unity South Africa (Busa) will try to help resolve the dispute between Woolworths and Saccawu, the union said on Friday.

Union plans ‘day of action’ against Woolies

The Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration was reluctant to exercise its powers in its dispute with Woolworths, a union said.

Boeing workers vote to strike, but walkout delayed

Boeing’s largest labor union said its members had rejected the plane maker’s contract offer and voted to strike.