The South African Transport and Allied Workers UNION, SATAWU, says it has seen the VBS report. the report makes mentions that a group of SATAWU officials were paid a R1.5 million bribe late last year to facilitate a R1 billion deposit by the Prasa into VBS bank. Zanele Sabela, SATAWU spokesperson speaks to SABC News.
SATAWU members at Denel Aeronautics downed tools after they demanded a 15% wage increase. Management offered 4% and refused to negotiate further.
Six hundred delegates of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) converged at the Midrand Conference Centre on 15 September, 2018 for its 4th Elective National Congress. The theme, discussion and direction of the National Congress was not only to elect new leaders but aimed to reclaim, renew and unite the organisation for…
Unions warn of more accidents. This article was first published in the Sowetan newspaper on 5 September 2018.
Investigations are underway into the exact cause of YESTERDAY’s train collision that left over 100 people injured in Selby south of Johannesburg. Metrorail says a train travelling from Faraday towards New Canada collided head on with another train bound for Naledi in Soweto. All the injured were taken to various nearby hospitals. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke…
The board of state-owned SA Express has appointed Siza Mzimela, a former CEO of South African Airways, as the struggling airline’s new acting CEO. All but two of the airline’s aircraft remain grounded. Current acting SA Express CEO Matsietsi Mokholo will be taking up a new position in the Presidency. Mokholo will hand over to…
National spokesperson at South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu), Zanele Sabela, says bus companies are trying to escape a wage agreement. This follows an application by five bus companies to be exempted from a recently signed bus sector wage agreement, citing financial difficulties. Sabela says they had a hearing with Putco and other…
Five bus companies, including Golden Arrow and Putco, have applied to be excluded from complying with the recently signed bus sector wage agreement, a move that could result in labour unrest. They have cited financial difficulties, angering labour, with the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) saying the move undermines collective bargaining. Labour…
