To mark Transport Month SATAWU members at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) will hold lunchtime pickets across Gauteng today, 23 October, to raise concerns about safety at work. Pickets will be held between 12pm and 2pm at Umjantshi House in Park Station, Pretoria Main Station in Tshwane and at the Gauteng South Rail…
Labour unions in the private security industry have rejected employers’ latest wage offer and are set to declare a dispute with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). The nine unions with seats in the national bargaining council met with employers on 1 and 2 October for a compulsory mediation process as per the…
Organised labour in the Security sector is warning of an impending strike after wage negotiations deadlocked late last week. The seven unions with seats in the industry bargaining council have been taking part in wage negotiations facilitated by Commissioner Meshack Ravuku since 15 August. Since then there have been four rounds of negotiations but employers…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is calling for swift action from authorities after two Autopax drivers were shot at in Ixopo last night. The two Translux drivers were headed to Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape in separate buses with each carrying 56 passengers when they were shot at. One driver died…
Negotiations to end the week-long strike by South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members at Bakwena Weighbridges are set to continue today. SATAWU members at the Bapong Weighbridge on the N4 and the Mantsole Weighbridge on the N1 downed tools last week citing dissatisfaction with their pay and benefits. Bakwena manages the weighbridges…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) distances itself from the planned strike in the trucking industry on September 1 and 2. News of a nationwide strike in the industry has been widely circulated. However, SATAWU does not know the origins of the call for the strike because none of the legitimate unions within…
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…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes the launch of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s war room but believes the parastatal missed an opportunity to assure its staff – women staff in particular – that it is concerned for their safety. Launching the war room last Thursday, Minister of Transport Fikile…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Mpumalanga is set to march to the office of Premier Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane on Wednesday, 17 July to handover a memorandum of grievances. Workers are unhappy the province has appointed new private security providers even though previous contract holders failed to pay employees outstanding salaries and benefits….
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) calls on government to arrest the ongoing chaos in the trucking industry and put an end to the unnecessary loss of life. Dozens of trucks have been attacked and torched mostly on the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal in the last year. Some industry players estimate the number of…
