Labour

Hundreds of Public Works workers march against termination of contracts

After ten years of having their monthly contracts continuously extended, they will no longer be renewed at month end

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Brief | 19 July 2024

The little charcoal business run by a group of young people in Matatiele

Morumotsho Charcoal has been going for eight years

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News | 15 July 2024

Workers at sauce manufacturer strike for R4 per hour increase

Management of Ribas Manufacturers has offered R1.75 per hour increase

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Brief | 12 July 2024

TOP Brand sauce manufacturing workers in Sandton down tools for higher wages

Striking workers on minimum wage are demanding an increase of R4 per hour while the employer has offered R1.75, says union

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Brief | 28 June 2024

Workers describe appalling conditions at Eswatini mine

“To live, I had to quit”

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News | 21 June 2024

Security guards protest outside Durban hospital, demanding their jobs back

Their contracts were not renewed after they participated in an unprotected strike last year

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Brief | 13 June 2024

Get us jobs, contract workers tell Gauteng Premier

The contracted workers were awarded compensation of up to R24,000 by the Labour Court. They refused to accept this and instead are demanding jobs.

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News | 27 May 2024

SG Convenience workers down tools for 15% increase

About 50 striking workers picketed outside the company’s warehouse in Glen Anil on Friday

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Brief | 24 May 2024

Community health workers toyi-toyi outside Alan Winde’s offices

They were demanding full employment by the province

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Brief | 17 May 2024

The traffic department that hasn’t issued a ticket for years

“We used to have ticket books, but they were stolen” says a traffic officer in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape

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News | 15 May 2024

Race to find 48 trapped construction workers

21 people have been rescued from the site of the collapsed building in George

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Brief | 7 May 2024

Mineworkers disrupt COSATU May Day rally in Soweto

“What are we celebrating, when we are losing our jobs?”

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News | 2 May 2024

President Ramaphosa calls for end to farm evictions

Thousands participate in Cape Town Workers’ Day rally

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Brief | 1 May 2024

Public sector hard hit by strike action

In 2023 and again in 2024, about half the strikes have been in the public sector, says report

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News | 30 April 2024

Hundreds of security guards sent home without wages after Eastern Cape health department fails to pay contractors

Department promises to make payments from April, the start of the new financial year

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Brief | 27 March 2024

“Cleaning and greening” workers dump rubbish on City Hall doorsteps in Gqeberha

Their stipends were paid a week late by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs

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Brief | 22 March 2024