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Category: Press Releases

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A New Workers Struggle in a form of the Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (TERS)

April 30, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentseconomy, ters

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is aggrieved by the inhumane conditions subjected by the working class in diverse sectors of the economy. The non-payment of staff salaries in the bus passenger, aviation, security and cleaning sectors, to name a few, has exacerbated existing antagonisms between the working class and owners of…

SATAWU Statement on PRASA Non-Payment of Provident Fund Contributions

April 29, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentsAnele Kiet, Jack Mazibuko, Minister of Transport-Fikile Mbalula, Prasa, Provident Fund, SATAWU, Tinzi Lubabalo

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) notes with concern the friction between UNTU (United National Transport Union) and PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) within the public space. The events and/or conflict subsequently translated into a qualitative leap whereby a criminal case on fraud and theft was opened against the appointed…

South African Express Provisional Liquidation

April 28, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentsprovisional liquidation, SA Express, SAE, SATAWU

Synoptical report on SAE provisional liquidation High Court judgment SAE reported having been put on provisional liquidation post the application filed by BRPs at High Court in Pretoria. Whilst this information has not been provided to the Union by BRPs, who for many times to remember always had some kind of attitudinal approach on meeting…

SATAWU Submissions on Sectors-Covid 19

April 27, 2020Vuyani Valashiya1 commentCleaning Sector, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, private security sector, rail and road infrastructure, South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA)

Towards a New South African Airways

April 25, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentsAfrican Aviation Market, Business Rescue Practitioner, Covid-19, Mango, Nationalisation, SAA, SATAWU

  A Proposal to the Department of Public Enterprises Drafted and Presented by SATAWU Problem Statement South African Airways (SAA) has for over a decade been retarded by failure to transition from a traditional state-owned enterprise (SOE) to one that is agile and adheres to optimum operating costs in a viciously competitive environment. Numerous attempts…

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SATAWU Perspective on Restructuring Efforts at SAA (South African Airways)

April 23, 2020Vuyani Valashiya1 commentMinister of Transport-Fikile Mbalula, Restructuring, SAA, SOE

April 23, 2020 The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes with a pinch of salt the economic relief measures pronounced by the President of the Republic of South Africa on 21 April 2020. The timing of the announcement, however, has set the tone for saving, reconstructing and reimaging the future of SAA…

TERS Gazette

April 14, 2020Vuyani Valashiya2 commentsGovernment Gazette

TERS GAZETTE

The South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (Sarpbac) is in the process of concluding an MOA with the Unemployment Insurance Fund

April 14, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentsbuses, ters, UIF

The South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (Sarpbac) is in the process of concluding an MOA with the Unemployment Insurance Fund that will allow it to facilitate payment of UIF to employees in the bus sector during lockdown period. According to General Secretary of Sarpbac Gary Wilson, bus companies will submit claims to the council…

Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS)

April 14, 2020Vuyani Valashiya2 commentsDepartment of Labour (DOL), lockdown, ters, UIF

The Unemployment Insurance Fund relaxes processes to minimise physical contact during the lockdown The Unemployment Insurance Fund has relaxed adherence to its processes by allowing claims to be paid without mandatory source documents for those clients who are already receiving payment benefits from the Fund. Clients who are receiving unemployment insurance benefits are normally expected…

Covid 19 and the Necessity for Socio-Economic Reorganisation

April 8, 2020Vuyani ValashiyaNo commentsCosatu, Covid-19, DoH, NEHAWU, SACP, SATAWU

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known as Lenin best describes the current social, economic, health and climate crisis as capitalism a โ€œhorror without endโ€. The Corona virus has accelerated, intensified and exposed class antagonisms associated with the capitalist mode of production. General productive activities, labour relations, the mobility of people and goods have been halted with…

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