Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has denied that Cosatu had ever apologised to President Jacob Zuma and the ANC for publicly criticising him.
The African National Congress and Cosatu kept mum following their meeting at the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday.
Public sector wage hikes of up to 57% a year prompt questions over productivity levels.
The public-service strike was suspended for 21 days this week because it was losing public support and members could not afford to forfeit more pay.
Neither the government nor the unions made use of a mediation mechanism that could have avoided the recent month-long strike.
Most of SA’s 1,3-million striking state workers returned to their posts on Wednesday as union leaders struggled to persuade members to accept a deal.
Public service unions were expected to announce on Monday if a new wage offer had been accepted which would end the national strike.
Workers continue to believe in the ANC government despite it being slow in addressing inequality and injustice, the Numsa president said on Saturday.
Striking public-service unions held a second day of meetings on Friday as an impasse between government and workers dragged on.
The 1,3-million workers who rejected the government’s wage offer appear to have sent a loud "no!" not just to the state but to trade union leaders.
Jacob Zuma’s intervention in the strike was as much an attempt to reassert his political power as a bid to bring the labour action to an end.
The strike continued on Thursday with the Cosatu and Independent Labour Caucus declaring a "preliminary" rejection of the government’s pay offer.
Public-service trade unions were expected to announce their decision on the government’s latest wage offer on Wednesday.
The government should ensure there is a moratorium on salary increases in the upper levels of government, the SA Communist Party said on Sunday.
There have been no new wage talks between public-service unions and the government, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Friday.
As government prepares to dock the salaries of striking teachers, an <i>M&G</i> investigation suggests the data necessary to do so could be flawed.
The strike by state employees marks the lowest point in relations between the ANC and Cosatu since President Jacob Zuma took leadership of the party.
Thousands of striking public servants took to the streets in mass marches countrywide on Thursday, vowing to continue with a disruptive strike.
Trade unions reacted angrily on Tuesday to the government’s claim that it had made a new wage offer to public servants
A group of striking workers defied a court order when they prevented non-striking workers and patients from entering King Edward Hospital in Durban.
