South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is aghast that state-owned companies Transnet and Autopax are preventing workers from voting in tomorrow’s national election. Starting yesterday morning, Transnet has released a flurry of letters all aimed at intimating workers from exercising their constitutional right. Reporting for work yesterday morning, workers at Transnet Freight Rail…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) fully supports the COSATU-led strike against job losses. Its leaders will be in various provinces on Wednesday to demonstrate. SATAWU President Ntuthuzelo Mhlubulwana will be in the Eastern Cape where marches in Nelson Mandela Metro, Queenstown, Mthatha and King Williamstown are set to start at 9am. General…
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…
Prasa Former eThekwini Municipal City Manager Sibusiso Sithole has been appointed Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) Group CEO. Sithole replaces Cromet Molepo who had been acting in the role since last December. Sithole has been given a year to turn the rail agency around as his contract expires in 12 months effective as of…
SATAWU has signed a one-year wage agreement with Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). Following months of negotiation the parties finally reached a settlement of 8% across the board on total guaranteed package effective as of 1 April, 2018 to 30 March, 2019. SATAWU inked the deal on coming back from a nationwide roadshow…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) signed a wage agreement at the Transnet Bargaining Council today. SATAWU held its ground and convinced management to up its offer to 7.1% across the board (ATB) for each of the three years of the agreement. Management had initially offered ATB of 6.5% for Year 1, 7.5%…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) will once again embark on a national roadshow to consult members at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) on whether to accept the latest salary increase offer. At an off the record meeting on Wednesday, Prasa made a final revised offer to labour to be…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) would like to congratulate Minister of Transport, Dipuo Peters, for acting speedily and installing an interim board at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). It is our belief that this move will serve commuters, the majority of whom are the poorest of the poor, well….
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) welcomes the dissolution of the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). SATAWU objected to its installation from the onset, questioning its ability to advance the developmental agenda of the agency and to identify with challenges of the ordinary people who patronise Prasa’s services…
The sector is focuses on the two established Passenger Rail organisations i.e Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Gautrain. Both are State Owned Entities (SOEs) although Gautrain only operates in the Gauteng Province while PRASA has a national footprint. Gautrain employees are members of a different union, a situation that hampers the establishment…
