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FlySafair said the price of jet fuel at local airports rose by about 70% in just one week, following a surge in global oil prices.
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Flysafair reaches wage deal with pilots, ending strike

According to union Solidarity, pilots will receive salary increases of between 6% and 6.9% over the next four years

Taxi politics: Santaco, national and local government talks hit deadlock

The national taxi council is seeking legal advice to apply for an urgent interdict for the release of all its impounded vehicles

Transport Minister Sindiswe Chikunga. (@Dotransport/Twitter)

UPDATED: City of Cape Town is ‘arrogant’, says transport minister over taxi violence

Sindisiwe Chikunga said that the city’s by-laws contravened national laws

Despite new management, problems that are costing the economy dearly continue to compound. Can the logistical behemoth turn the tide? Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

Transnet turns a new leaf, but there are many cracks in the system

Despite new management, problems that are costing the economy dearly continue to compound. Can the logistical behemoth turn the tide?

Disrupted: The protest by civil servants at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital resulted in health care being ‘chaotic’ . Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images

Several hospitals hit hard by public sector strike

Some hospitals were disrupted by protesters but most facilities had few to no disturbances

Transnet says it can’t afford to pay employees more

Unions vow to bring Transnet to a standstill over wage row

Transnet says it can’t afford to pay employees more

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Pravin Gordhan. (Halden Krog/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Editorial: A political solution from Ramaphosa or Gordhan will not solve the Eskom load-shedding crisis

After more than 10 years of meddling and the countless executive game of musical chairs, please leave political actors out of Eskom problem-solving. This is a problem to be…

Enough: Soweto residents picket outside Eskom’s offices in Megawatt Park. The power utility this week moved
to stage six load-shedding. Photo: Phill Magakoe/AFP

Workers didn’t cause Eskom crisis

The utility’s employees went on an unprotected strike but years of poor decisions wrecked the energy producer

Troubled (c)love(r): The General Industry Workers Union and the Food and Allied Workers Union oppose the acquisition Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Are unions as pro-worker and pro-poor as they claim?

Clover labour unions are fighting the BDS movement’s political battles while ignoring workers’ needs

A general view of burnt out goods after a Pick n Pay truck was torched along the N1 in Klipheuwel on July 08, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. It is reported that both the N7 and N1 were affected by protests after a nationwide call for truck drivers to stop operating to protest the employment of foreign drivers. The truck drivers also threatened to shut down the whole country. (Photo by Jacques Stander/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Brakes put on foreign truck drivers

New legislation aims to protect local jobs in the transport sector amid questions as to whether SA has enough willing and skilled drivers

(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC begs staff to be flexible with their go-slow to help meet IEC deadline

ANC general manager Fébé Potgieter has written to staff appealing to them to be flexible in implementing their go-slow protest to allow them to complete the processes of…

Flying the flag: A protester waves the Colombian flag during strike action on the same day in Bogotá. The protests are pro-poor and articulate the feeling that the government protects the interests of the wealthy elite. Photos: Ovidio Gonzalez/Getty Images

Cali protests herald brewing class war

Colombia’s general anti-tax strike has turned into a mass protest movement and become violent, writes Laura Brown

The consumer price index decreased by 0.1% month-on-month in August, after increasing by 0.9% in July.

Pick n Pay workers lose their jobs for ‘striking’ during the lockdown

A group of workers have been dismissed, but they insist they never embarked on industrial action in the first place

The union sent a strike notice to the energy and chemical company early last week, but did not at the time say when the strike would start. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Solidarity plans for three-week Sasol strike over share scheme

Industrial action will start on Monday, but not all Solidarity members will down tools at the same time

According to UNTU Bombela Operating Company offered union members an 8.5% salary increase across the board and would not pay employees an incentive bonus.

EXPLAINER: Why Gautrain workers are on strike

​The United National Transport Union is demanding a basic salary increase of 10%

A mass meeting of Uber and Taxify drivers took place at Zoo Lake in Johannesburg on Monday

Uber: It’s drivers vs the corporate machine

A group of drivers have asked that the ride-hailing company reduce its service fee in light of the fuel price hike

Amcu leader Joseph Mathunjwa has been accused by union employees of making unilateral decisions.

Amcu workers too scared to strike

Union employees can legally strike over a wage dispute with the union but dissent is silenced and they fear being fired

Although the statistics are significantly high

NUM vs NUM: Union members clash in Stilfontein at election meeting

A fight broke out when a group of National Union of Mineworkers disrupted a meeting where new branch members had just been elected.

Government urges calm amid public sector strike fears

Labour unions in wage negotiations have left the bargaining table, insisting that the state violated a recent increase agreement.

The effect of the platinum mining strike last year was not as severe as expected.

Political risk claims lower in 2014

State insurer Sasria saw an increase in profit last year despite platinum workers downing tools for five months.