Sidney Kgara, head of Nehawu’s Policy Development Unit, proposes that a popular left front must be urgently built around the material interests of working-class communities.
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ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
In the feature of this issue we: Look back on the election and what messages the results contain; Look forward to life with the GNU and what it will mean for the majority of poor and working-class South Africans; and Look at the opportunities and challenges for the...
Op-Ed: Sensationalising isolated incidents in the health sector strike trivialises workers’ very legitimate demands
This article has been jointly published with Daily Maverick. Let us not forget that the public sector strikers are workers who have come off a year of zero increase. They have effectively taken a wage cut two years in a row, a loss of nearly 10% of their buying power....
WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD FOR PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS?
Amandla! interviewed Nehawu’s Sidney Kgara Amandla!: The Constitutional Court recently ruled that government does not have to honour collective bargaining agreements if they “can’t afford” to do so. From Nehawu’s point of view, what are the key elements of this...
Unionised Civil Servants Reject Final Wage Offer
By Samantha Enslin-Payne - 13 October 2010Government deal unsigned, labour leaders to seek new mandates today.The government's final wage offer to civil servants was not signed by the deadline yesterday as a majority could not be secured among the 19 public service...
Government Paddles Lies on Wage Offer
24 August 2010 NEHAWU is deeply disturbed by the outright lies that government has told the people of South Africa that there is an 8.5% wage increase offer that has been presented to the unions. There is no offer that was tabled at the PSCBC, a democratic institution...
State Threatens to Take Action Against ‘Illegal Strikers’
By Linda Ensor and Sarah Hudleston23 August 2010The government says it will take action against workers in essential services who continued to strike in defiance of a high court interdict ordering health, prison, police and emergency service personnel to return to...
Court Orders Striking Medics and Nurses to … Get Back to Work
- But unions slam profligate ministers By Staff Reporters 22 August 2010 Trade unions have threatened to continue their civil service strike - defying a court order that doctors, nurses and other essential services staff return to work. The urgent interdict was...
South Africa: Public Sector Strike Highlights Post-Apartheid’s Contradictions
By Patrick BondAugust 22, 2010 - The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government have vowed to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting more than a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a...