GroundUp reports that Hundreds of people from civic organisations and unions marched to Parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday ahead of Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). Many of the protesters sang struggle songs and held up posters which read: “Budget cuts kill education,” and “Create more permanent jobs’” as they […]

GroundUp writes that Community health workers picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday where their employment status is being litigated. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) is seeking to review a bargaining council arbitration award that ruled against the union’s application to compel the Department of Health to give community […]

Business Report writes that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is locked in a fierce battle with Seriti Resources following the miner’s controversial announcement that it would lay off more than 1 000 employees. The decision, triggered by what Seriti describes as unmanageable operational challenges stemming from Transnet’s underperformance and market volatility, has sent shockwaves […]

IOL News reports that a former Free State National Botanical Gardens employee, who was fired for operating a loan shark business at work, lost his appeal at the Labour Court to get his job back. Monapole Daniel Kaweng worked as a specialist machine operator and was also a shop steward before he was found guilty of […]

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] in the Western Cape is deeply angered by the Western Cape Cabinet Statement regarding the ongoing wage negotiations in the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council. We view the statement of this anti-working class government as nonsensical, and an attempt to influence the employer to advance the […]

SABC News writes that Former Lily Mine workers, along with the families of the three employees trapped underground when the mine collapsed in 2016, held a prayer service on Sunday to mark 2000 days of camping outside the mine premises. The family members and some of the former workers have been living in a tent erected outside […]

The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) notes and welcomes the decision by Honourable Acting Judge E. Molahlehi of the Labour Court. On 10 October 2024,  Judge Molahlehi ruled that the City of Tshwane’s two review applications will be heard together on 28 November 2024. This decision is a significant milestone for the Union and its […]

SABC News reports that the 20 years of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) have yielded positive results and produced artisans in various fields of trade. This was announced at the Free State launch of the EPWP Phase-Five in Bloemfontein, as government celebrated some of the beneficiaries of the programme. Five hundred people signed three-year […]

The Rep writes that scores of Enoch Mgijima local muni­cip­al­ity (EMLM) work­ers, affil­i­ated to the SA Muni­cipal Work­ers Union (SAMWU), returned to work after their employ­ers secured a court inter­dict against strik­ing work­ers con­cern­ing a dis­pute over wage increases. Their griev­ances over a nego­ti­ated wage hike arrange­ment came after the SA Local Gov­ern­ment Asso­ci­ation (Salga) […]

CapricornFM News reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has expressed shame and disappointment at the conduct of a police sergeant ahead of her appearance in the Polokwane District Court today, 11 October 2024, on six counts of murder and seventeen cases of insurance fraud. The 43-year-old on-duty sergeant was apprehended in Senwabarwana on Thursday for allegedly benefiting […]