South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) is calling on the management of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) put a plan a place to stem train collisions after at least three people died in a train crash this morning. More than 300 people were also injured when one commuter train collided…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) members at state-owned Autopax, the company that operates Translux and City to City buses, have gone on a wildcat strike. Workers are unhappy they were not paid for Sunday work this month and are out of pocket. The company unilaterally changed the method of payment for Sunday…
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…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) calls on the Minister of Finance to stop making irresponsible statements. Speaking at an investment conference in New York yesterday, Tito Mboweni said state-owned airline South African Airways (SAA) should be closed down because it was loss-making and in his opinion could not be turned around. He…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) calls on all road users to comply with the rules of the road as Transport Month draws to a close. This year’s Transport Month saw a number of collisions with high fatalities including 26 people who died when the front tyre of a truck burst causing the…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) is horror-struck that the board of Transnet has defied a Labour Court order and fired Group CEO Siyabonga Gama. Yesterday the board notified Gama that his contract of employment was terminated via a letter. This is despite the Labour Court having ordered on Friday that the case…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) calls on the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) to intervene in a standoff between one of its contractors and its employees. Zimele Investment Enterprise is contracted by SANRAL to operate the Heidelberg weighbridge in Johannesburg as well as the Zebediela weighbridge in Polokwane. The company weighs…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) applauds the SA Police Service for arresting the men caught on video shooting two security officers outside Maponya Mall, Soweto last Wednesday. The two armed-response officers were stationed outside the mall when two men approached the vehicle they were sitting in and shot them at close range….
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…
