Posted in South Africa on Sep 8th, 2010
Report by SADTU First Published: 06/09/10 The COSATU Public Service Unions and the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) that represent more than 1. 3 million workers have been on strike for three weeks fighting for a living wage and improvement of the conditions of employment. Labour has decided to suspend the strike and this does not [...]
Posted in South Africa on Sep 2nd, 2010
The South African public sector strike was set to continue after the country’s main labour federation on Wednesday rejected a revised government offer. “We got a report from unions and the overwhelming majority of provincial structures have rejected the government’s offer, the strike continues,” Cosatu general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi told AFP. However the Independent Labour [...]
Posted in South Africa, Zimbabwe on Apr 18th, 2008
Durban – Opposition to a shipment of arms being offloaded in Durban and transported to Zimbabwe increased on Thursday when South Africa‘s biggest transport workers’ union announced that its members would not unload the ship.
Posted in South Africa on Jun 15th, 2007
Report by COSATU-press@googlegroups.com Published here: 14/06/07 13 June 2007The following memorandum is being submitted to government offices today by the public service trade unions. Memorandum in support of the demands of labour in the public service co-ordinating bargaining council Trade Unions representing South Africa’s more than one million public service workers tabled collectively their demands [...]