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The mass strike on Wednesday was only nominally about e-tolling on public roads and the problem of labour brokers. It was, in fact, a serious shot across the bow of government about the deteriorating conditions faced by wage earners, the poor and the unemployed....
By Benny Asman, reporting for Amandla! from BrusselsThe entire French society is coming out against the law adopted by Senate and Parliament. The law reduces pensions and raises the retirement age from 60 to 62. More than three million workers, students and learners...
Conference of the Democratic Left - Statement on the public sector strike - An Injury to one is an injury to all!In just a few days teachers, nurses and other public sector workers have mutated from the upholders of civilised values to a cruel mob intent on destroying...
By Anna Majavu 23 August 2010Zuma spoke yesterday to about 300 people at the Glendale Secondary School in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. He said in the past, nurses and doctors would have been allowed to cross "picket lines" to treat critical cases. "Even if we went on...
- 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...
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...
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) together with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Peoples Health Movement (PHM) held a very successful seminar on the proposed National Health Insurance...