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Eyewitness News reports that on Wednesday striking SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union members marched along the roads surrounding OR Tambo International Airport, demanding wage increases from their employer, ground-handling firm Menzies Aviation. S...
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has threatened Eskom with a strike over what it says was a unilateral decision on the utility’s part to implement a 7% wage increase. The union says it has “adopted a programme of action that includes lunch-hou...
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Cosatu has reported that it will be staging a series of regional marches during September, culminating in a one-day national stayaway on 5 October 2011 over various issues. Cosatu North West has now released details of its programme of action leading up t...
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The Johannesburg Rea Vaya bus operating company, Piotrans, is to make an application to the Labour Court for an interdict in a bid to end a strike by its drivers and the application will probably be heard on Friday. The strike began on 1 August and there ...
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) reports that a mine worker who failed to clock out yesterday at an Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine in Rustenburg, has now been found dead. He was found in a haulage between the boundary of the Khomanani 2 and...
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) reported on Wednesday that it and Amplats (Anglo American Platinum) had agreed on a two-year wage deal. In the first year, wages will be raised between 8.5% and 10%, depending on worker category, while in the second...
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The Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU) has suspended its national strike in the local government sector indefinitely. Its says it will continue with bilateral discussions over the next two weeks with employers body Salga (SA Local Govern...
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In a response to a parliamentary question, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has stated that Blacks bear the brunt of unemployment, with the unemployment rate for this group at 30% in June, compared with 29.1% in 2004. For Coloureds it was 23.1% (22% in 200...
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Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel yesterday appealed for greater "calmness" in the debate about labour markets, which he said was not helping create the conditions for a pact between business and labour as envisaged in the New Growth Path. That...
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A Kloof Gold Mine employee was arrested on Monday for stealing explosives following a tip-off to the police. He pointed out 20 explosives and detonators at vacant houses in Westonaria.
Report is on page 3 of Business Day print edition...
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Cosatu members are due to stage a series of marches around the country late next month, culminating in a one-day mass stayaway on 5 October. At issue are the call for the banning of labour brokers, Walmart’s purchase of Massmart, a more ethical public s...
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The text of a parliamentary reply by the Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, on whether there is a link between the entry of Walmart into SA and the retrenchment of approximately 31,000 employees at Pick n Pay. The Minister said it comes down...
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Marius Fransman, ANC Western Cape leader, writes that the ‘attack’ by the Democratic Alliance (DA) on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) for its condemning report on the abuses suffered by farm workers on Western Cape wine and fruit farms, ignores the real ...
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SA’s economy grew at its slowest pace in almost two years in the second quarter as the manufacturing and mining sectors slumped after strikes, denting the government's job-creation hopes. Stats SA said yesterday GDP growth slowed to 1.3%, its lowest lev...
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The Health Professions Council of SA has deregistered 1,400 bogus emergency medical service practitioners who bought their "qualifications" from a Polokwane-based training academy. Some did not attend even a single course at the Limpopo Ambulance Training...
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The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) has backed calls by its affiliate, the United Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Utatu), to not split state-owned port and freight rail company Transnet. Last week, Parliament heard that Transnet could be strippe...
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Solidarity reported on Tuesday that it has declared a wage dispute with Eskom and has referred the matter to the CCMA. The dispute is over Eskom’s “one-sided implementation of a two year wage agreement for an increase of 7%”, which the union sees as...
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A Special National Executive Committee of the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) which met on 27 August 2011 decided to call off the municipal workers’ national wage strike which had commenced on 15 August 2011. The reasons for its decision have been...
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has reported that a mineworker was killed at Impala Platinum (Implats) Shaft 20 this morning. He was a contractor working for Murray & Roberts and was fatally injured after being struck by a falling rock.
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The South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) has called off its nationwide municipal strike, which started on 15 August 2011, with immediate effect. The decision was taken by its special national executive committee in the interest of the broader p...
