New Eskom workers' salaries revealed
The lowest-paid unionised Eskom workers should be earning a starting salary of R19,768 per month from July 2026, calculations by MyBroadband showed.
Eskom and two of its workers' biggest labour unions recently announced the signing of a multi-year salary...
South Africans need to get involved in the affairs of the country, but without resorting to violence and looting, deputy public service and administration minister Ayanda Dlodlo said on Wednesday.
Speaking in Durban, Dlodlo said that in recent months the country's image had taken a knock...
Cosatu will fight to transform apartheid wage structures and craft a new minimum wage policy, president Sidumo Dlamini said on Tuesday.
"We [are] meeting here today to lodge a fight... to claim what belongs to us, the workers," Dlamini said in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg.
"These...
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi denied on Thursday reports that he was involved in financial wrongdoing, according to Eyewitness News
"I will never ever use the powers I have as general secretary of the federation to steal from the very downtrodden members of the federation, who...
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Cleanliness-key-at-strike-hospitals-20100823
I just spoke to a lady who volunteered at the Boksburg hospital last Friday. She said the place was filthy and had obviously not been cleaned in months... let alone one week of the strike. She was so mad...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100819124407819C124915
If I was one of the parents of these guys... and a protester attacked one of my kids....
Well... let's just say there would be hell to pay.
Freaking scumbags.
After much speculation, it is cofirmed that the municipal strike is over, after trade unions and government came to a wage increase agreement.
The only problem now is to successfully inform all union members that the strike is over before they start trashing the streets again.
But don't quote...