Press Statements
SATAWU welcomes TRANSNET appointment of Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo as auditors
21 Feb 2012
The South African Transport & Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) welcomes yesterday announcement by Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba that Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo will be conducting Transnet external audits from now on. As biggest union organising in Transnet we see this move as a step in the right direction to transformation of the accounting industry.
SATAWU planned march against Metrorail called off
02 Feb 2012
The planned march on Friday 3, February, 2012 has been called off after the CCMA was granted Metrorail an Interim Court Interdict against any strike action or intention to strike by members of SATAWU. That being the case we can confirmed that all SATAWU Metrorail workers would be reporting for duty and continue to work as normal.
A brief history of SATAWU
The So uth African Transport and Allied Workers Union, SATAWU, was formed in 2000 after a series of negotiations and smaller scale mergers by unions in the transport industry. SATAWU organises workers in the transport sector as well as security and cleaning companies. The sectors include railways, harbours, parastatals, aviation, passenger transport (buses and taxis) freight (trucking), contract, cleaning and security.
The Scope of the Union
The Union will be open to all workers employed in any of the following public or private industries, trades, occupations and undertakings in South Africa:
- Transport services
- Maritime transport
- Civil Aviation
- Transport infrastructure services
- Property Services
- General cleaning services
- Laundry and Dry Cleaning workers
- Funeral undertaking workers
- Security Services
- Taxi Industry
SATAWU
currently has 165 200 members
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