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As this issue of Amandla! goes to press, we read disturbing accounts of South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) shop stewards being prevented by private security personnel from entering the union's Johannesburg headquarters, and being physically attacked with...
by Benjamin Fogel During the 1980s the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was the figurehead of the so-called 'workerist' tendency within the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and has always been on the left in Cosatu. Although Numsa...
For the leadership of the ANC and SACP an independent and militant worker controlled and independent trade union federation is too dreadful to contemplate– especially as we approach the 2014 national and provincial elections. What if COSATU refused to campaign for or...
Union says freedom of expression doesn't extend to freedom to insult SADTU calls for the immediate removal of Zuma painting SADTU is joining the ANC and COSATU in the call to have the painting of President Jacob Zuma showing his private parts removed from the Goodman...
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...
By Andile Ndlovu, Zandile Nbabela and SapaUnions claim victory but striking workers biggest losers, say economists It was the tales of suffering of parents, pupils and hospital patients during the three-week public servants' strike that inspired union members to...
By Samantha Enslin-Payne and Bloomberg7 September 2010Unions have suspended the 20-day public service strike to consider the government's revised wage offer made last week, but they warned that this did not mean the offer had been accepted. Thobile Ntola, the...
- 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...
24 August 2010 The latest statement issued by Government stating that in “real terms” government is offering public service unions an 8,5% increase, is pure misinformation aimed at causing confusion. The Government has added the Pay Progression – an old and hard...