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TALKING DIRTYGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers, New Press, 2005On average, each American produces almost 4.2 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, almost a third of it in packaging. This staggering statistic starts Heather Rogers’s book on garbage, a...
By Marshall PatsanzaJOHANNESBURG, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - South African teachers - along with other public service employees - have embarked on an indefinite strike over wages. The unions are demanding an 8.6 percent wage increase. Government says it cannot afford to...
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...
- 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...
08/14/2010 Only secure and valued teachers can deliver quality education We will continue to campaign for quality teaching and professionalism from teachersEqual Education (EE) believes that the demands of workers and teachers for an 8,6% increase, a R1 000 housing...
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...