Press Statements
Organised Labour declares a wage dispute with SARPBAC
12 Apr 2012
Wage talks between organised labour namely SATAWU & TOWU and the employer South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBAC) have deadlocked once again. A dispute was declared in the 2012 - 2013 wage negotiations between the aforementioned parties on Wednesday 29th February 2012.
SATAWU cautions road users as the Easter Holidays approaches
04 Apr 2012
The South African Transport & Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) acknowledges that while South Africa is notorious for its high accident rate, this is especially true in holiday periods.
A brief history of SATAWU
The So uth African Transport and Allied Workers Union, SATAWU, was formed in 2000 after a series of negotiations and smaller scale mergers by unions in the transport industry. SATAWU organises workers in the transport sector as well as security and cleaning companies. The sectors include railways, harbours, parastatals, aviation, passenger transport (buses and taxis) freight (trucking), contract, cleaning and security.
The Scope of the Union
The Union will be open to all workers employed in any of the following public or private industries, trades, occupations and undertakings in South Africa:
- Transport services
- Maritime transport
- Civil Aviation
- Transport infrastructure services
- Property Services
- General cleaning services
- Laundry and Dry Cleaning workers
- Funeral undertaking workers
- Security Services
- Taxi Industry
