The South 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.
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) has won a victory for workers in time for Christmas. The 41 workers were dismissed from Durban Container Terminal Pier 2 at Transnet Port Terminals in 2016, for having taken part in a work stoppage. SATAWU took the matter to the Transnet Bargaining Council and won the…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members will march to the Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality in Mpumalanga today, 6 December. SATAWU members will be accompanied by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the province to deliver a memorandum of demands to the municipality. The disgruntled workers are security officers…
The summary dismissal of 300 drivers by a Pretoria-based outsourcing company, who said the drivers all tested positive for cannabis, raised a lot of questions among fleet managers. The former drivers’s hero now turned zero, Arnoux Maré, managing director of Innovative Staffing Solutions, fired the 300 drivers when they allegedly tested positive for having cannabis…
