The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] joins millions of South Africans in celebrating National Women’s Day which is celebrated annually on the 9th August. In celebrating this historic day, NEHAWU salutes the generation of 1956 for their unwavering commitment to the liberation of the country. The national union takes this opportunity to […]
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NEHAWU CONDEMNS PSA OPPOSING NHI
Wednesday July 12, 2023 The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] notes the statement released by the Public Service Association of South Africa (PSA) on the National Health Insurance Bill. This reactionary and historical white staff association of the Apartheid state apparatus purports to speak on behalf of the workers in claiming that […]
SACTWU SETTLES POLYPROPYLENE TEXTILE SECTOR WAGE NEGOTIATIONS
The Cosatu-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) has settled its 2023 wage negotiations for most of its polypropylene textile sector members. Some were settled at plant level and the bulk at centralised bargaining forum level. The centralised forum negotiations was facilitated by the National Textile Bargaining Council (NTBC), even though the NTBC […]
POPCRU to convene its Central Executive Committee meeting
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) will be convening its ordinary Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting from Sunday, 27 November 2022 to Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Boksburg where over 800 POPCRU members and guests will converge to engage on contemporary organisational issues. The CEC is […]
POPCRU withdraws its participation from the Public Service Summit
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has, after careful consideration taken a decision to withdraw its participation from the ongoing Public Service Summit currently being held at the Emperor’s Palace in Boksburg, scheduled to take place from the 28th to 31st of March 2022. This decision is based on the fact that the […]
WFTU TRADE UNION INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE & ALLIED (TUI-PS&A) STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PAKISTAN FEDERATION OF UNITED TRADE UNIONS (APFUTU) IN THEIR PROTEST FOR BETTER WAGES.
Thursday March 17, 2022 The World Federation of Trade Unions [WFTU] Trade Union International Public Services and Allied [TUI PS & A] representing more than 30 million members in the public service, take this opportunity to pledge its unwavering solidarity and support to thousands of Public Service Workers represented by Pakistan Federation of United Trade […]
NUM welcomes the Companies Amendment Bill
NUM welcomes the Companies Amendment Bill The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) welcomes the Companies Bill, we commend the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition for making strides to ensure the companies recognize and formalize the stakeholder participation. Minister Ebrahim Patel introduced the Companies’ Amendment Bill published in the government gazette number 45250, notice 586 […]
SADTU MOURNS THE PASSING ON OF GAUTENG’S CENTRAL REGION SECRETARY
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) is mourning the death of one of her leaders, Comrade Mzamani Isaia Baloyi. Comrade Baloyi was the Secretary of Gauteng’s Central Region and principal of Selelekela Secondary School in Orlando East. The 46-year-old was found dead at his home in Roodepoort on Friday night. He met his death […]
COSATU welcomes the government’s support for local cement suppliers
13 October 2021 The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes the National Treasury’s instruction to all government departments, entities, State-Owned Enterprises, and municipalities that they may only purchase locally produced cement. This is a demand the Federation has repeatedly made with the government and private industries. This forms part of the core […]
South African Post Office workers lives matter
Communication Workers Union (CWU) is saddened by the brutal murder of a South African Post Office worker in Sebokeng Post Office (Retail Office) which transpired last week Thursday on the 9th of September 2021. A 34 year old man; Isaiah Motsapi who was a teller in the Post Office was shot dead at the robbery where R200 […]
NUM in the Free State region strongly condemns gender-based violence and sexual harassment of black women taking place at Phakisa Mine based on racial prejudice
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Free State Region is dismayed and upset by the series of disheartening events which seem to take place year in and year out without ceasing at Phakisa Mine in the Free State Region. Phakisa Mine is an operation owned by Harmony Gold. These events are a clear […]
NUM CALLS ON THE MINES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY (DMRE) TO ACT NOW TO STOP FATALITIES IN THE MINES
The National Union of Mineworkers NUM) is deeply shocked and saddened by the death of a mineworker at Two Rivers Mine yesterday morning around 10 am. Two Rivers is situated in Limpopo next to Steelpoort town. The cause of the incident is still unknown, however, we can confirm that the incidents happened as a result […]
A MINEWORKER DIES AT HARMONY’S GOLD’s MPONENG MINE YESTERDAY
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) notes that there has been a fatality at Harmony‘s Gold Mponeng Mine in the Carletonville region through what is reported to be a “fall of ground”. The incident happened yesterday. “It is quite disturbing that poor people who earn peanuts continue to die and the industry for which they […]
Nedlac Labour School Statement
Organised Labour represented by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), National Congress of Trade Unions (NACTU) and the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) held their mid-year Nedlac Organised Labour School to assess progress on the implementation of key policy interventions to spur economic growth, save and create jobs, and provide relief […]
POPCRU on the Quarterly Crime Statistics
POPCRU on the Quarterly Crime Statistics The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has noted the recently released quarterly crime statistics for the period covering the 1st of April to the 30th of June 2021 by the South African Police Service (SAPS). The union also noted that under the period in review, our country was ravaged […]
NUM CELEBRATORY MESSAGE TO COSATU’S 35TH ANNIVERSARY
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) wishes the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) all the best as it is celebrating its 35th anniversary. The history of COSATU in itself is the history of the struggle against the apartheid regime and its unjust labour practices. COSATU was launched on 1 December 1985, at the […]
COSATU AFFILIATED PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS READY TO FIGHT SALARY INCREASES AT LABOUR APPEAL COURT
The government has failed to present ‘exhaustive evidence’ to show it cannot afford wage increases for its employees; lawyers for three COSATU affiliatedpublic-sector unions are arguing in papers before the Labour Appeal Court. The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU), the Democratic Nursing Association of South Africa (DENOSA) and the Police and Prison Civil Rights […]
COSATU supports the NEHAWU Community Healthcare Workers Strike
The Congress of South African Trade Unions fully support the upcoming NEHAWU Community Healthcare Workers’ national strike, starting tomorrow-11 November 2020. We agree and fully support NEHAWU’s push for all CHWs to be permanently employed and for their working conditions to be improved. This issue of campaigning in support of all vulnerable workers is a […]
DENOSA KZN statement on continuing tactics by government to effect salary increase and poor quality of PPE given to nurses in the province
DENOSA in KwaZulu-Natal is disappointed and angry about the stunt by government of delaying tactics when it comes to the dispute declared by unions on the salary increase which was due this year in April, but till now nurses have not received their salary increase. The principle of increasing salaries is informed by the annual […]
SAMWU saddened at the passing away of 3 officers while pursuing a suspect in Tshwane.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in the Tshwane Region has learnt with great sadness and shock of the passing away of three Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Officers following a head-on collusion in the early hours of this morning. Information at our disposal indicate that the officers were backing up their colleagues who […]
Municipalities sending municipal workers to slaughterhouses
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) has noted with great concern that municipalities have been failing dismally to protect the health and safety of municipal workers, including the failure to provide them with necessary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required for the safe execution of their duties. This failure by municipalities has resulted in a […]
NEHAWU RESPONSE TO THE STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON FURTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES IN RESPONSE THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) notes the economic and social measures announced by President Ramaphosa to the nation last night. The impact of the combined global capitalist crisis and COVID-19 pandemic is likely to plunge all regions, including Africa, into recession as forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the […]
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST EMPLOYERS’ ONSLAUGHT ON OUR MEMBERS, USING COVID19 AND NATIONAL LOCKDOWN AS AN EXCUSE
SACCAWU, wish to, as we hereby do, register her bitter observation and deep disappointment in respect of the unbecoming conduct of employers in the organized sectors, whose primary objective is to intensify class offensive strategies and disguise them as simple industrial relations matters. As we mark the commencement of the extended Lockdown in South Africa and strive […]