-
Coega Development Corporation yesterday said a new vehicle plant to be built by FAW Group of China in the Coega Industrial Zone in the Eastern Cape will boost gross domestic product and altogether create a total of 1,100 jobs.
This report is on page 14...
-
A new, state-of-the-art haematology unit at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital is standing idle because it cannot employ nurses. The Eastern Cape health department promised the haematology unit 22 nurses, but despite having advertised and recruited st...
-
National Union of Mineworkers leaders yesterday condemned "dirty campaigning", which included promises to mining companies that there would be no industrial action, ahead of the union’s elective conference which starts today. The leadership battle in t...
-
The battle between the National Union of Mineworkers and rival newcomer, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, has flared up again at Impala Platinum — pointing to the once-dominant NUM losing its grip on the platinum industry. An ille...
-
Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven says that, following bilateral talks with the ANC on proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act, the federation believes that the party could have revised the proposals on strike ballots and picketing. “We have not s...
-
In response yesterday to Parliamentary questions, President Zuma said that in general national and provincial departments were doing well in the filling of funded vacant posts. The employee database indicated that on average less than 3% of funded posts w...
-
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU), representing 659 labour broker employees at the SA Post Office (Sapo), is set to meet with the employer again today, but it is not happy with the latest “improved” offer. It says the long-running strike will e...
-
The first round of wage talks between municipal unions and the SA Local Government Association (Salga) yielded little, unions said. At the end of two meetings, the wage demands of Samwu and Imatu stood at 13% across the board or R2,000 (whichever was grea...
-
The National Union of Mineworkers will discuss proposals for a review of the constitution and the "transformation" of the judiciary at its five-day national congress, starting today. "The argument is that the judiciary must be completely transformed to ad...
-
The National Union of Mineworkers will consider asking the government to revoke Impala Platinum’s license after a worker was shot last week at its Rustenburg mine in clashes between labour organizations. “If the company is unable to protect people, it...
-
CEOs will soon be dumping emails in favour of social networks to forge closer connections with customers, partners and a new generation of employees, an IBM study of more than 1,700 chief executive officers from 64 countries reveals. In the future, their ...
-
‘Scores’ of Impala Platinum mineworkers were injured when police fired at them today during an illegal march to the Phokeng Magistrate's Court near Rustenburg where they wanted to get two union leaders released. Police used teargas and rubber bullets...
-
The Public Servants Association (PSA) today condemned the National Prosecuting Authority's plans to appeal against last month’s Labour Appeal Court ruling that found in favour of the PSA’s objection to the NPA's decision to phase in implementation of ...
-
Members of the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union employed at Wrapsa Packaging and Manufacturing, a pharmaceutical and healthcare organisation in Centurion, took to the streets yesterday demanding wage increases in a prote...
-
A bungled shift system and a government cash crunch has led to possibly as much as R1bn in overtime pay being owed to SA’s prison warders, according to the Public Service Association (PSA) and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru). Both uni...
-
Impala Platinum reported today that the strike taking place at its Rustenburg operations was in protest over the arrest of some members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) for alleged involvement in last week's violent clashes ...
-
Business Unity SA today urged the government to introduce a youth wage subsidy as soon as possible. "The funds made available by the National Treasury nearly two years ago for a youth wage subsidy should now be constructively deployed to help mitigate yo...
-
Nineteen illegal miners are reported to be trapped underground in the Bontekou diamond mine near Kleinzee in the Northern Cape. A disused tunnel collapsed, trapping the men who were digging illegally for diamonds. Eleven managed to escape and alerted po...
-
Impala Platinum has reported that most workers did not report for duty at its Rustenburg mine today because of labour unrest. Police earlier said protests had flared up at an informal settlement near the Rustenburg operation.
This report is at Fin24
...
-
Fresh protests erupted yesterday at an informal settlement near Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations, which were shut for six weeks in February due to battles between rival unions. Roads leading into the settlement were blocked by rocks and rubble. Imp...
