Namibia: labour broking ban and challenge
In 2007 Namibia’s new labour act criminalised labour hire. Since then this clause has been the subject of legal challenges. …
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Municipal workers and the environment
Municipal workers deal with environmental issues every day – blocked sewage, dead dogs, rubbish disposal. They and their unions could …
Municipal workers dig in heels
Over the last six months the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) has been in continuous dispute with municipalities around …
MWASA
Briefings: By Yunus Carrim.
MWASA – Trying to set the Deadlines
Briefings: By Media Study Group.
My Life is For Rent: A Cycle of Debt: Transnet Workers Speak
During the Transnet strike in May Katherine Joynt and Mariane Tsoeu went to interview some workers. What they reveal explains …
My sister, my responsibility: women claim their rights at Gabriel
Farnaaz Majiet meets the women who make change happen for women workers at the Gabriel shock absorber plant in Cape …
My union experience the best certificate of my lifetime interview with Nelson Ndinisa
Sakhela Buhlungu interviewed Nelson Ndinisa and found that the ex-SARHWU president’s experience equipped him to be a manager at Transnet. …
Muddled labour broker ruling overturned
In 2015 a confusing court judgment ruled that labour brokered workers were employed by both the broker and the client …
NACTU congress: what prospects for unity?
Devan Pillay looks at the 258 000-strong NACTU, the second largest trade union federation in South Africa, after its third …