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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...
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...
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...
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Government decries disruption of schools and hospitals by strikers By Linda Ensor and Hopewell Radebe20 August 2010The government yesterday warned public sector trade unions engaged in an indefinite strike that excessive wage demands would harm the economy and...
Aug 18, 2010 The wealth of South Africa should be distributed more fairly and equally Thabiso Mokoshane is 39 and heads the languages department at Kensington Secondary in Devland, near Soweto. He has taught for six years and has a BA degree in education, but earns...
18 August 2010 1. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) supports the decision by the public sector workers to go to a rolling mass action in demand of a living wage and improved conditions of employment. This public workers strike should be...
YCLSA Media Release, 18 August 2010The Young Communist League of South Africa (Ufasimba) affirms its unequivocal support to the thousands of workers within the public sector; some of which are still subjected to ailing working conditions and yet expected to deliver...
Joint Statement for the Cosatu Unions and the Independent Labour Caucus The COSATU Public Service Unions and the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) last Friday called a press conference where we pointed out that we have been patiently trying to persuade the employer to...