Finance minister Tito Mboweni insisted on Thursday that the government has held “a multipronged conversation” with trade unions to lay the groundwork for a three-year wage freeze on which the entire budget rests. Mboweni was briefing MPs…
Bay union leaders call for action on PPE corruption, jobs crisis, lack of wage increases during one-day national strike Those implicated in Covid-19 corruption should also face murder and attempted murder charges as thousands of people…
Cosatu members who demanded 2020 salary increases in nationwide protests on Wednesday say their demands are about more than just money. The unions have been involved in a battle over the government’s failure to honour a 2018 agreement to…
Lilian Ngoyi Street is awash in red as union members march from Burgers Park to the National Treasury in Pretoria. A sizeable protest is also under way in Cape Town as marchers prepare to hand over a memorandum at the Western Cape…
Public and private sector services in at least four Eastern Cape cities will come to a standstill on Wednesday as hundreds of workers are expected to join the national strike organised by Cosatu. Speaking on behalf of the union on…
Services such as health care and education are expected to be disrupted on Wednesday as public sector workers down tools and stay at home to protest against the government’s failure to implement wage increases. Union leaders in three of…
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Monday called for public and private sector employees to down tools on Wednesday. This is due to, among other issues, the ongoing wage disputes between the government and its employees. The…
John Kane-Berman for the Dailyfriend Supplied by the National Employers Association of South Africa (NEASA) That the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) should have seized upon the clicks hair advertisement to showcase their propensity for…
Outspoken finance minister Tito Mboweni has opened up about working with and for presidents during his more than 25-year career in politics. Mboweni took to his preferred medium, Twitter, at the weekend to share some of the biggest…
Cosatu wants ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa to grow a backbone and “swing a big axe” against corruption – or risk losing the support of the working class who have run out of patience with the governing party. The federation did not mince…
Cosatu wants workers and unions to have a say on whether a business can reopen when the hard Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown ends on April 30, following a risk assessment and a signed agreement by stakeholders. The trade union federation is…
Key ANC ally the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it intends to openly defy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ban on mass gatherings of more than 100 people, saying it will support a planned national strike by its public sector…
Labour federation Cosatu has described the deaths of two men allegedly set alight by their boss as “barbaric and disgusting” and has vowed to continue campaigning for a safe workplace. Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal was reacting to the deaths of…
