The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) expresses deep concern over the failure of National Treasury to reimburse the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) for the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for financial year 2024/2025, which led to the deficit for the DCS. While we have successfully advocated for the implementation of grade and pay progressions […]

SABC News writes that starting from the 1st of next month, South Africa’s new national minimum wage will come into effect, bringing changes that are expected to impact various industries across the country. The wage has been increased to R28.79 per hour, up from the previous rate of R27.58. Managing Director at Strata-G Labour Solutions, […]

Capricorn FM reports that the South African Medical Association Trade Union in Limpopo has given the Limpopo health department 14 days to respond to its memorandum of demands on issues around unemployed doctors, unilateral changes in working conditions, and commuted overtime. Unemployed qualified doctors and medical students marched to the department’s offices in Polokwane demanding equal and […]

SABC News reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has rejected Petra Diamond’s retrenchment notice of over 200 mineworkers in its Pretoria and Northern Cape Operations. According to the union, the company says the diamond industry is facing the longest downturn in over 30 years. It says this is driven by global economic factors such […]

The Citizen writes that scores of marchers including the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and alliance partners flooded the gates of ArcelorMittal in Vanderbijlpark during a picket against the looming closure of the steel giant. On February 7, the gathered crowds demanded an end to job losses and called for the utility to return […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions staged a workers’ march in Pietermaritzburg ahead of Thursday evening’s State of the Nation Address. The trade union federation wants the local government to give feedback on several issues it raised four months ago. COSATU’s KZN branch submitted a memorandum of concerns on retrenchments, wages, the province’s unemployment rate and […]

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] appeared in the Labour Court today, 31st January 2025 for the court to declare a final order holding the Minister of Public Service and Administration in contempt of court for failing to implement the PSCBC settlement agreement born-out of NEHAWU strike in March 2023 which the Court […]

EWN writes that the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) has condemned the attacks at PUTCO depots in Mpumalanga and said the situation needed to be addressed urgently. A group of people stormed depots in the Nkangala District on Monday night and 51 buses were torched. A security guard was shot and wounded while […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) calls on the Department of Health to speedily employ Community Health Workers (CHWs) on a permanent basis as per the recent Labour Court judgement. Last year, the Federation’s militant affiliate, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) approached the Labour Court seeking to overturn a […]

GroundUp reports that on Tuesday, residents of Valdezia near Elim blocked the D4 road between Elim and Malamulele. They were once again protesting against staff shortages at their neglected local clinic, which they say has been left with only one duty nurse. After the protest last month, frustration grew as more patients were turned away due to […]