The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union’s strike in Parliament has been called off. On Wednesday, almost four weeks after workers first downed tools, workers accepted an offer from Parliament, after negotiations with Nehawu’s national leadership and presiding officers. Nehawu branch chairperson Sthembiso Tembe on Wednesday said they had[…]
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete vowed to crack down on striking Nehawu workers if they disrupted any of its business again after a sitting was abandoned when they burst into the House on Tuesday. “Today they didn’t just continue with the strike, they started to embark on the type of[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema has warned big corporations to look after their workers otherwise they would rise up against them. “I warned about an un-led revolution in South Africa. It’s coming,” he told the Southern African German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Johannesburg on Friday. “It’s in the universities[…]
Parliament has in principle agreed to pay striking National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) bonuses based on their annual package. However, it would be up to a task team consisting of Nehawu and Parliament management to calculate just how much this would cost the institution. Parliament Nehawu-affiliated workers[…]
Parliament came to a standstill on Monday when various support workers downed tools. Workers from different sectors, including cleaners, communications gathered at the Old Assembly Chamber singing and toy-toying for more money. This led to the visitors centre closing from 09:30. One aggrieved worker said Parliament was diverting money from[…]
Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa will be meeting Woolworths workers currently engaged in a protected labour strike since Monday. Over 700 workers at the Woolworths Johannesburg Distribution Centre are currently engaged in a legal labour strike since Monday. According to union representatives, various operations at the Woolworths distribution centre[…]
Cosatu will embark on the “mother of all stay-aways” on Wednesday when it stages marches in all nine provinces to protest against higher taxes, e-tolls and job losses among other things burdening the working class. The demonstrations coincide with the World Day for Decent Work. Cosatu said its members will[…]
Around 230 000 members of unions affiliated with Cosatu are expected to take part in a march in Cape Town next week, the federation’s provincial secretary claimed on Thursday. Tony Ehrenreich said a memorandum of demands would be handed over to a representative of Parliament. The march is part of[…]
Palestinian refugees in Gaza on Wednesday reached a deal with local employees to end a crisis which has the plagued the start of the school year in the besieged territory. Head of the UNRWA employees union, Suheil al-Hindi, said the agreement was reached after a stormy four-hour meeting with UNRWA[…]
Around 225,000 Gazan schoolchildren were forced to return home on Monday after local staff at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza went on strike on the first day of the new school year. The strike comes amid a financial crisis in the agency that earlier threatened to delay[…]
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