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CCMA

Payback time for workers fired from Luxor Paints

The company has been ordered to reinstate and compensate employees it dismissed unfairly after a strike. And although a court review may delay justice, the workers won’t give up…

  • Magnificent Mndebele
7 min read
(Ashraf Hendricks/Ground Up)
CCMA

Luxor Paints loses CCMA case, must pay workers R40m in back pay

Some of the 181 workers were dismissed for carrying sticks during a strike, others were dismissed even though they weren’t at the picket, but were deemed guilty by association

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
CCMA

Sticking it to the boss is not so simple, according to an expert

Experts disagree on the meaning behind carrying sticks during strike action, a debate that will be aired at the CCMA on Wednesday

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Ongoing struggle: Mineworkers commemorate the 2012 Marikana massacre, two years later. At the Farlam commission, witnesses had differing views on what stick-carrying signified. (Paul Botes/M&G)
CCMA

Carrying ‘weapons’ while striking is still a sticking point

An upcoming CCMA case will consider whether workers carrying sticks at a strike is an act of intimidation or a call for unity

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read
Luxor Paints said they had to engage additional security “to ensure the safety of its employees and hired labour”.
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL WORKERS UNION OF

Luxor workers: ‘After seeing one of our comrades lost his eye, we cried like babies’

Worker representatives claim one worker lost an eye and 19 others were hospitalised after run-ins with private security while on a peaceful strike

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read