Ground Up reports that security guards have been protesting outside a project to build pavements in Illitha Park, Khayelitsha since Monday over their unpaid wages. On Tuesday morning, the guards prevented construction workers from leaving or completing their duties at the site. The guards demanded that Sibakulu Guarding Division pay their October salaries. The CIty of […]
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Labour Court orders SAB to reinstate up to 188 warehouse workers
News24 reports that SA Breweries (SAB) will have to reinstate up to 188 warehouse workers, pending further consultation with them, after the Labour Court ruled that it had not followed a fair procedure before dismissing them. On Friday, Judge Reynaud Daniels ruled in favour of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), which had taken SAB […]
EPWP workers march for permanent jobs and better pay
Ground Up writes that hundreds of workers affiliated with the Maanda-Ashu Workers Union of South Africa (MAWUSA) marched to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure in Pretoria on Monday, demanding permanent employment and better pay. The workers are temporarily employed through the government’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and the Community Work Programme (CWP), […]
Daybreak Foods workers march for TERS funds
Ground Up reports that about 200 workers of poultry company Daybreak Foods marched to the Department of Employment and Labour in Pretoria on Friday. They are demanding to be paid Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) funds. The workers are affiliated with the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU). TERS provides temporary financial assistance of up to […]
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa signs three-year wage agreement
Engeneering News reports that in a media release, NUMSA says it has negotiated across-the-board (ATB) wage increases for all hourly paid employees in Grades 1 to 7. This includes a 5.5% increase effective July 1, a 5% increase effective July 1, 2026, and a 5% increase effective July 1, 2027. The labour union says these […]
NUM and SACP march against Eskom’s privatisation and electricity tariff hikes
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Western Cape Region and the South African Communist Party (SACP) embarked on a joint protest march to the offices of Eskom and the Department of Employment and Labour on Saturday, 8 November 2025. This action was a direct and forceful offensive against key socio-economic issues impacting the working class […]
NEHAWU signs wage agreement with NSFAS ending a seven months impasse
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] has ended a seven months long wage impasse at National Students Financial Aid Scheme [NSFAS] after both parties reached an agreement on the 04th November 2025 leading to a signing ceremony on the 05th November 2025 following a strike action in the month of October 2025. […]
SALGBC dismisses Tshwane’s wage exemption request
Times Live reports that the South African Local Government Bargaining Council (SALGBC) has ordered the City of Tshwane to comply with the 2021/22 salary and wage agreement and effect the necessary adjustments within six months. The SALGBC on Friday dismissed an application by Tshwane to be exempted from honouring the wage agreement it had signed […]
Tshwane won’t appeal order to backdate salary increases
The Citizen reports that the City of Tshwane on Tuesday afternoon announced that it will implement the bargaining council ruling made the previous day and pay – retrospectively – the 3.5% salary increase its staff was entitled to in 2021/22. This means the city must find at least R2 billion to foot the bill that […]
SAMWU: Tshwane’s decision to backpay employees
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 […]