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The Food and Allied Workers Union. (Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)

Fawu members fight back in court

Infighting intensifies as factionalism and purges rock the union ahead of its national congress

Airline gets another chance as rescue practitioners and Gordhan agree to work on a rescue plan by the end of June
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SAA’s choice: Restructure and cut 2 200 jobs or liquidate and lose 4 700

The business rescue practitioners say 29 of the fleet of 48 planes, various routes and inefficient services also need to go in the state-owned airline is to survive

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Yeshiel Panchia/AFP)

Whatever happened to Ramaphoria?

“Overall it seems not only is Ramaphoria dead [it was never alive] but the long arc of reform potential is being lost in the discourse."

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SAA’s options seem limited

Business rescue is unlikely to work for a state-owned airline, say experts. But the government has no money for bailouts

Volkswagen secured an interim interdict against more than 100 of its former workers and the EFF in October. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)

VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years

Volkswagen SA has turned to the courts to prevent former employees and the EFF from picketing at the Eastern Cape plant

From June 19 to 27, an underground strike was staged at the Lanxess chrome mine, during which workers demanded that management immediately suspend and discipline an alleged perpetrator of sexual harassment. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a ‘powerful moment in labour history’

Almost 300 workers went on strike to force management to deal with a longstanding harassment allegation.

NUM members protest against Eskom’s 0% wage increase proposal.

Still no deal in Eskom wage negotiations

Eskom and unions have yet to reach a wage deal nearly a month after negotiations began, with unions describing the talks as "sensitive"

The strike began on May 16.

Bus strike: Unions and bosses back at the bargaining table on Thursday

Five different unions are participating in the strike which started on April 16

The union embarked on a protest on Friday last week

Numsa continues its fight against ‘notorious’ Fortune Steel

The trade union has embarked on a picket outside Fortune Steel in an effort to force the company to comply with health and safety laws

The National Union of Mineworkers is no longer Cosatu’s largest affiliate.

Cowed NUM licks its wounds

The metalworkers’ union, bleeding members and money, is electing leaders who will have to stop the rot.

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.

Cosatu’s Vavi calls for unity, Numsa’s reinstatement

Cosatu’s general secretary says the way towards unity is to have Numsa reinstated and to hold a special national congress "sooner rather than later".

The alleged undermining of Numsa’s internal democracy was at the centre of recent court action to challenge a raft of suspensions executed in the lead up to the union’s congress, which was set to start on Monday.

ANC laments Numsa’s ‘tragic’ expulsion from Cosatu

The ANC says the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa from trade union federation Cosatu is a tragic development.

Critics of Numsa’s secretary general, Irvin Jim, allege the union is drifting from its worker base and risks being captured by its investment arm to become a vehicle for petty bourgeois accumulation. (Gallo)

Numsa expelled from Cosatu

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has been expelled from Cosatu after a grueling special central executive committee meeting.

Neasa refused to sign the offer

Neasa lockout to continue ‘despite threats’

Neasa has said it will continue its constitutionally protected lockout of workers following the end of the wider strike in the metals sector.

Numsa accuses employers of stalling wage settlement

The metalworkers union sees the industry’s eleventh-hour bid to link an agreement to the curtailing of factory-level demands as an act of bad faith.

Numsa strike continues despite Seifsa’s ‘hasty’ latest offer

Numsa will convene a number of member meetings to present the latest wage offer to its members, despite Seifsa already making the offer public.

Investors see Russia less risky than SA as strikes impede growth

Investors are beginning to favour the Eastern European country over South Africa as strike in mining and metals overshadow the seizure of Crimea.

Numsa rejects 10% wage offer, strike ‘to intensify’

The trade union has called on it’s members to intensify the nationwide strike, which has already affected some companies in the automobile sector.

Numsa has urged both restraint and militancy. A march in central Johannesburg went off relatively peacefully.

The jury is out on strike violence

Everyone condemns labour-related violence but no one can agree on how to deal with the matter.

About 220 000 metalworkers began an indefinite strike on Tuesday for a double-digit wage increase. Marches were held in Cape Town

Workers are trapped in slavery wages, says Vavi

Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi has told thousands of striking metalworkers that ​workers have no reason to celebrate 20 years of freedom.