strikes

  1. Stonemason

    Driver's licenses no longer being produced

    The government has not been printing driver's licenses for the past five months and if your license has expired, there is no way to get a replacement. They have all kinds of excuses blaming striking workers but in reality it is just part of the slide towards a failed state. Our government...
  3. Rouxenator

    Protest action in Jamestown, Stellenbosch

    Not sure what it is about, modus operandi seems to be same old.
  4. HAL 9000

    Strikes cast shadow over Ford's South African investment prospects

    U.S. carmaker Ford is hesitant about investing further in its South African operation because of repeated production stoppages caused by strikes, its regional chief said on Thursday. The South African auto industry, which accounts for about 6 percent of the continent's most developed economy...
  5. S

    Platinum Wage Negotitations

    http://www.platinumwagenegotiations.co.za/
  6. LazyLion

    Protests a Ticking Time Bomb: Vavi

    Ongoing protests across the country are a ticking bomb about to explode, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday. "Nineteen years later in a democracy we are becoming [the] protest headquarters of the world; we call that a ticking bomb about to explode," he told delegates at...
  7. LazyLion

    Danny Glover surprises Marchers

    US actor and activist Danny Glover surprised Popcru members at Mary Fitzgerald Square in central Johannesburg on Thursday. He told the crowd he supported them. "I'm here on behalf of all the workers in Mississippi. We are all supporting each other, we must stand together. Amandla," he...
  8. LazyLion

    Action Plan for Mining Woes: Shabangu

    Government will initiate a specific programme of action to deal with the "crisis perception" in the mining industry, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday. Shabangu said government met with bosses of mining houses on Friday to discuss the problems facing the industry...
  9. LazyLion

    Protests watched: Cwele

    An early warning system is in place to alert law enforcement officials to potentially violent protests, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Tuesday. Delivering his budget vote speech in the National Assembly, Cwele blamed "socio-economic factors and the global economic slowdown"...
  10. LazyLion

    SA Mining Lost Billions During Strikes

    South Africa's mining industry lost over R15 billion in production during the strikes in the 2012/2013 financial year, according to figures released by the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) on Thursday. Just over R10bn was lost in gold and platinum production during the mining sector...
  11. LazyLion

    Trust in Trade Unions Dropping: Report

    South Africans are losing faith in trade unions, according to research quoted in a report on Tuesday. Trust in trade unions among the public in general dropped from 43 percent in 2011 to 29 percent in 2012, reported Business Day newspaper, quoting a survey compiled by the Human Sciences...
  12. LazyLion

    Motshekga Mum on Looming Teacher "go-slow"

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has opted to remain silent on a looming go-slow by teachers. "The minister will not comment on the matter," her spokeswoman Hope Mokgatlhe said in an sms on Monday. The SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) said on Monday its members would embark on...
  13. LazyLion

    Protest Marches Not the Answer: Zille

    Service delivery protest marches do not make any difference, DA leader Helen Zille said in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape on Friday. "The truth is, protest marches rarely change anything because making a noise doesn't change a government." She was speaking to residents after a tour of the...
  14. G

    Unpacking the cost of the Lonmin wage deal

    http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page35?oid=158833&sn=Detail&pid=102055
  15. G

    Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid ‘Miracle’

    http://world.time.com/2012/08/22/as-south-africa-reels-from-mine-shootings-social-inequality-threatens-to-undo-the-post-apartheid-miracle/
  16. LazyLion

    Cosatu to strike again on e-tolls, labour brokers

    http://www.businesslive.co.za/southafrica/sa_markets/2012/04/19/cosatu-to-strike-again-on-e-tolls-labour-brokers Can't they just separate the issues for once?
  17. LazyLion

    Gautrain bus driver shot in Centurion

    http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=84393 I like the comment below the article.... "Another reason to cancel tolls. Public transport is not safe!"
  18. Lycanthrope

    DA's proposed amendment to LRA absurd - YCL

    Source: PolitcsWeb I lolled... hard! :D For the record, I completely support the existence of unions--they serve a necessary purpose. However, why should unions not be held accountable for damages caused and crimes committed by their very own strikers? Surely it's their responsibility to...
  19. Lycanthrope

    Zuma Tells Cop to Arrest Trashers!

    Source: The Citizen Well, I don't see it saying anywhere that Zuma SAID that the trashers will be arrested, just that they should be arrested. But if he has said that they will be, then I'm all the more for it and quite impressed with Zuma. Not that I like him in the slightest and he has a...
  20. D

    Multiple strikes to cripple SA

    http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-1786_2542174
  21. LazyLion

    EU Rejects Three-Strikes Legislation, For Good

    http://torrentfreak.com/eu-rejects-three-strikes-legislation-for-good-090506/ At least some of those guys still have some common sense! :)
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