Capricorn FM News reports that members of the National, Education, Health and Allied Workers Union’s Mike Tauyatswala region have staged a protest outside the headquarters of the provincial department of Health in Polokwane, demanding that suspensions of their shop stewards at the Pietersburg hospital be lifted. NEHAWU’s regional secretary Matome Phooko says seven shop stewards were […]

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The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) is pleased to announce that thousands of its members in the leather tanning sector in South Africa can look forward to a 7.25% wage increase, with effect from 1 July 2023. This follows a recent settlement for an amending wage agreement for this sector, signed […]

SABC News reports that bus operations in the City of Tshwane have been suspended due to a strike by workers affiliated to the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu). Workers are striking over salary increases and overtime. The Tshwane Bus Service Management says the strike is illegal and that it will institute labour processes to […]

The Citizen reports that the embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality in the south of Johannesburg continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time around, irate employees embarked on sporadic protest actions in recent days, demanding their salary payments for the month of May. Regional chairperson of the South African Municipal Workers Union […]

BL Premium reports that Eskom management and leaders of three unions demanding higher wages at the ailing power utility will engage in an extended negotiation process after parties could not reach agreement during the final round of talks in May. Representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and […]

Business Live reports that outsourced Transnet cleaners engaged in an unprotected strike in Durban over unpaid wages on Thursday. Workers under Masihloniphaneni Trading — a company outsourced by Transnet to provide cleaning services — staged a stay-away on Ely Road in Bayhead, Durban. Justice Duma, one of the protesting workers, said they had not been […]

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Business Report writes that Eskom wage negotiations are heading for the fourth round in June after talks deadlocked as three workers unions rejected the employers’ revised final offer of 5.25% increases. This comes as the power utility and its three recognised trade unions – National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), National Union of Metalworkers of South […]

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The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) wishes to update its members and workers at the North West Transport Investment (NTI) to be specific, and the members of the public, that indeed the union had a follow up meeting with the office of the Premier of the North West. This follows a commitment […]

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GroundUp reports that Almost 100 former nurses at Jubilee District Hospital in Hammanskraal are calling on the Gauteng Department of Health to employ them permanently. Originally contracted in July 2020 to deal with the Covid pandemic, their employment contracts were periodically renewed but terminated at the end of March 2023. The nurses have been sitting […]

News24 reports that three unions at Eskom have rejected the embattled power utility’s latest 4.5% wage increase offer. Eskom tabled its revised offer, which is a hike from an initial 3.75%, to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Solidarity at the Centralised Bargaining Forum (CBF) on […]