South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is gravely concerned Autopax staff have been paid only 25% of their salaries for February. State-owned Autopax is a subsidiary of Prasa and operates Translux and City to City buses. SATAWU is particularly concerned that this comes so soon after workers were paid just 50% of their…
CONCILIATION PROCESS TO AVERT BUS STRIKE UNDERWAY South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) along with four other unions is taking part in a conciliation process at the South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBAC) after the first round of negotiations failed to produce an agreement. Bus sector wage negotiations between SATAWU, NUMSA, TAWUSA,…
Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union known as SATAWU at North West Transport Investment, the NTI, are marching to the Department of Transport in Pretoria this morning to demonstrate over what they call “their displeasure” at statements allegedly made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. The NTI bus service is contesting the transport…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members at North West Transport Investment (NTI) will march on the Department of Transport on Monday to demonstrate their displeasure at statements made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. Last month Minister Mbalula met with community members to hear their complaints about NTI’s bus service in Hammanskraal, Mabopane and…
SA’s controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Bill and its stinging demerit system – signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa this week – is the beginning of stringent road laws. “This is definitely the way to go and is not the end,” transport minister Fikile Mbalula told the Sunday Times yesterday. He…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) urges all road users to prioritise safety this Easter weekend. The weekend has hardly started but already at least 12 people have died in two horrific crashes in Limpopo and Kwa Zulu Natal. Five people died in a collision between a mini-bus taxi, a sedan and a…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) has seen the report by Advocate Terry Motau into the circumstances that led to the demise of VBS Mutual Bank. Released today, the report details how the directors of the bank and their associates looted more than R2 billion from the bank’s coffers between 2015 and early…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) made submissions opposing the Essential Services Committee’s bid to make public transport an essential service thereby barring workers in the sector from striking. SATAWU opposed the application on the basis that it is frivolous and seeks to strip the Constitutional rights of workers to improve their working…
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…
