The Congress of South African Trade Unions will convene a media briefing session on Monday to communicate the state of readiness and give details about the upcoming National Strike on the 07th of October 2020. The details of the briefing are as follows: Date               :           05 October 2020-Monday Venue            :           COSATU House 110 […]

 The Congress of South African Trade Unions is convening a two day ordinary Central Executive Committee [CEC] meeting starting today the 24th of August 2020  to discuss issues affecting the workers and the working class in general. The meeting will be followed by the usual media briefing to communicate the outcomes of the meeting. The details […]

The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) will on Thursday, 30 July hold a virtual Imbizo with municipal workers and the media. The purpose of the Imbizo is to give an update on salary and wage agreements, benchmarking, COVID-19 allowance, the union’s way forward on municipalities that have not implemented salary increases and to have […]

COSATU KZN with the affiliated Public Sector Unions and South African Municipality Workers’ Union will be picketing against the provincial treasury demanding the following: ·         Government’s decision to renege from both the PSCBC and SALGBC signed collective agreements to pay workers their 20/21 salary increments. We demand government to honour these agreements. ·         the uplifting of moratorium […]

Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to declare a national state of disaster on Sunday and in an attempt to help limit the spread of Covid-19 virus; the Cosatu National Office Bearers have taken a decision to postpone all Cosatu Provincial Shop Stewards Council meetings scheduled for March/April 2020. The Federation has also canceled the May […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the North West Province will hold its first Provincial Executive committee for 2020 from the 5th to the 6th March at Orion Safari Hotel in Rustenburg starting at 10H00. The PEC is expected to be attended by all affiliates of COSATU in the North West Province and […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will convene its ordinary three-day Central Executive Committee [CEC] meeting from the 24th -26th of February 2020  to discuss Organisational, Political and Socio-economic issues affecting the workers and the working class in general. The meeting will be followed by the usual media briefing to communicate the meeting outcomes: […]

COSATU Free State would like to update members in relation to the water crisis in Maluti A Phofung with the following issues: A meeting of stakeholders took place on 29 January 2020 to put in place a multi-stakeholder forum that would oversee the process of resolving the current water crisis within the Municipality.  The first […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins millions of workers in South Africa to mourn veteran trade unionist and revolutionary Comrade Andrew Zulu. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family and his friends. Cde Zulu was a formidable trade unionist who contributed immensely in building the trade union movement and in shaping the […]

COSATU will present its submission and proposals to Parliament’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement public hearings at 9am Friday 29 November, M514, Marks Building, Parliament. South Africa’s faces its greatest economic and governance crises since 1994: ·         Unemployment is at 40% and the highest since 2008; ·         1000s of workers are retrenched monthly; ·         400 000 new […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will convene its ordinary three-day Central Executive Committee [CEC] meeting from the 25th -27th of November 2019 to discuss Organisational, Political and Socio-economic issues affecting the workers and the working class in general. The meeting will be followed by the usual media briefing to communicate the meeting outcomes:   […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will convene its ordinary three-day Central Executive Committee [CEC] meeting from the 25th -27th of November 2019 to discuss Organisational, Political and Socio-economic issues affecting the workers and the working class in general. The meeting will be followed by the usual media briefing to communicate the meeting outcomes:   […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will convene its ordinary three-day Central Executive Committee [CEC] meeting from the 25th -27th of November 2019 to discuss Organisational, Political and Socio-economic issues affecting the workers and the working class in general. The meeting will be followed by the usual media briefing to communicate the meeting outcomes:   […]

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will be picketing at Nedlac Offices tomorrow during the Section 77 plenary meeting on the ongoing Economic Crisis and Job Losses.The Federation will be picketing to express it disappointment and disapproval of Nedlac’s mismanagement of our previous application that resulted in the Labour Court issuing an interdict against […]