After the presidential jobs summit failed to arrive at an agreement with big business on a moratorium on job cuts.
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South Africa’s labour movements have been sent back to the drawing board
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R600 000 missing and a unionist accused of stealing
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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) faces its first test against corruption within its ranks as it prepares to deal with one of its most popular leaders accused of illegally using R600 0000 of workers’ money in two years.
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WATCH: Fight breaks out over minimum wage in South-African Parliament
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A fight broke out in parliament on Wednesday during a Labour Portfolio Committee meeting to discuss‚ in detail‚ the National Minimum Wage Bill.
The committee chair‚ Sharome van Schalkwyk‚ described the incident as “unfortunate” and said it was not an indication of how South Africans should resolve differences of opinion.
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Ramaphosa:- ‘The struggle for a living wage is still on’
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President Cyril Ramaphosa hit back at critics of the national minimum wage, saying that the proposed R20 an hour is just a baseline towards establishing a living wage for workers in South Africa.
Addressing workers at trade union federation Cosatu’s main May Day event in Nelson Mandela Bay on Tuesday, the president admitted the minimum wage is not a living wage.
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“Voetsek Cyril Ramaphosa voetsek!” – Saftu threatens to make South-Africa ‘ungovernable’
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The South African Federation of Trade Unions will celebrate its one-year anniversary by “making South African ungovernable” unless the state scraps the national minimum wage in its current format and introduces fair labour laws.
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Unions call for R8,500 instead of R3,000 for farm workers
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Over 100 trade union members from farms across the Western Cape gathered for the Fourth Commercial Stevedore Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU) National congress. The two day conference in Surrey Estate, which started on Friday, will consider climate change, women and youth on farms, migrants, and the proposed minimum wage amongst other things. CSAAWU..
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