Today's Labour News
This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
Last Update: 05-07-2024
SA Labour News
Communication Workers Union tells MTN it will strike over wages
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Bloomberg reports that MTN workers are set to go on strike after a breakdown in wage talks between the cellphone company and the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
Cops fight back as heavily armed illegal miners loot mothballed Lily Mine
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City Press reports that illegal miners have been looting gold from Mpumalanga’s mothballed Lily Mine, but police are on their tracks. Mpumalanga police arrested two suspected illegal miners when they embarked on a clean-out operation last weekend. One illegal miner was shot dead.
Post Office workers seek minister’s help in pay talks
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The Sunday Independent reports that SA Post Office (Sapo) workers have called on Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele to urgently intervene in their wage negotiation deadlock with Sapo management.
Former labour registrar Johan Crouse says something’s rotten in state of unions
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Business Times writes that according to former labour registrar Johan Crouse, trade unions were fleecing their members, and the government was making it difficult to hold them accountable.
Footwear workers' wage strike set to enter second week on Monday
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EWN reports that the National Union of Leather and Allied Workers (Nulaw) indicated in a statement on Sunday that footwear workers would be continuing with their nationwide wage strike.