EWN reports that the South African Local Bargaining Council (SALBC) recently ordered the municipality to implement a 3.5% salary increase for over 20,000 of the city’s workers. After threatening to make the City of Tshwane ungovernable for the G20 Summit, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) has softened its tongue following the city’s decision […]

SABC news reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has kicked off wage negotiations at Eskom with a 15% salary increase demand for its members. Other demands include a housing benefit of R7 000 a month and the company’s medical aid contribution of 80%. The current 7% multi-year agreement comes to an end in June […]

Ground Up reports that dozens of workers at Maluti-a-Phofung Water (MAP Water) in the Free State downed tools on Monday in protest against the municipality’s plan to close down the water company. Workers blocked the entrance to the office in Phuthaditjhaba with their cars and picketed outside, singing songs. In a 25-page “execution plan” dated […]

Ground Up writes that former and current Great North Transport (GNT) employees have been camping outside the Limpopo Premier’s Office in Polokwane since 15 October, demanding payment of outstanding pension and provident fund benefits and implementation of a forensic report. The group, made up of hundreds of people, including elderly men and women, has been holding sit-ins […]

Sunday Tribune reports that emplayers have been warned against locking employees inside business premises. The warning was issued by the Department of Employment and Labour following this week’s joint inter-departmental inspection blitz at clothing and textile factories on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast. Advocate Michael Msiza, the department’s acting chief director of statutory and advocacy services, […]

Ground Up reports that more than 200 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers marched in Johannesburg on Monday, demanding an end to short-term contracts. The march was organised by the Independent Liberation and Allied Workers Union (ILAWU). The workers marched from Joubert Park to the Johannesburg Social Housing Company and then to the Gauteng Premier’s […]

The Citizen reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), representing 15 000 workers at Eskom, said workers are demanding a 15% wage increase, along with higher housing and other allowances. This round of wage negotiations comes weeks after the state-owned power utility revealed for the first time in eight years it has made a profit. Eskom […]

SABC News writes that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has raised concern over unexplained pension fund reduction that its members have reported. POPCRU says its members have reported a drop in their balances in their Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) statements for the period from July to September. The GEPF has attributed […]

Ground Up writes that dressed in their red and black robes, about a dozen magistrates downed their gavels to picket outside the court in Durban on Monday, demanding better working conditions and higher pay. They say they chose to protest during lunch to avoid disrupting court proceedings. Among their grievances are deteriorating working conditions and […]

EWN reports that the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in the Western Cape is calling on government and community leaders to condemn and address ongoing attacks on waste management staff. Between July 2024 and June 2025, over 50 cases of hijackings and robberies were reported, affecting workers in cleansing, collections, disposal, and public awareness […]