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Tag: Autopax

Home Posts Tagged "Autopax"

SATAWU Worried about Autopax Part-paid Salaries

March 2, 2020Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, financial stress, part-paid salaries, Prasa

South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is gravely concerned Autopax staff have been paid only 25% of their salaries for February. State-owned Autopax is a subsidiary of Prasa and operates Translux and City to City buses. SATAWU is particularly concerned that this comes so soon after workers were paid just 50% of their…

Autopax Employees Wait for Full Salaries

January 30, 2020Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, City to City, Harmony bus depot, Nana Zenani, Prasa, Translux

Translux and City to City employees are still without half of their January salaries which were expected to be settled yesterday. Autopax, which owns the two bus companies, could only afford to pay half of its 1,070 employees’ salaries on Monday and promises were made by its management that the difference would be paid by…

Uncertain Future for Autopax Employees

January 28, 2020Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, City to City, Nana Zenani, Prasa, Translux

Employees of Translux and City to City buses are facing a bleak future as the state- owned company is unable to sustain itself due to shrinking passenger numbers and financial losses. The company, which failed to pay full salaries for 1,071 of its employees this month, suspended services of its lucrative Eastern Cape route two…

SATAWU Calls for Labour Consultation on Prasa Turnaround

January 18, 2020Zanele Sabela1 commentAutopax, Bongisizwe Mpondo, Metrorail, Modernisation, Prasa turnaround strategy, Shosholoza Meyl

The leadership of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) endorsed the turnaround strategy of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) when it met with the administrator, Bongisizwe Mpondo, on Friday. However, SATAWU was emphatic Mpondo had to take the role of stakeholders seriously and consult unions on critical matters particularly…

Autopax Moves to Address Attacks on Buses

October 2, 2019Zanele Sabela1 commentattacks on Autopax buses, Autopax, City to City, Department of Transport, SANTACO, Translux

Autopax held a meeting with workers, unions and management on Monday to discuss the recent attacks on their buses. The meeting followed a tumultuous week during which workers embarked on a wildcat strike citing safety concerns after gunmen assaulted a driver and a woman sales consultant at Kokstad Station, KwaZulu-Natal on 22 September. The gunmen…

SATAWU Calls for Swift Action after Two Bus Drivers are Shot

September 9, 2019Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, City to City, Ixopo, Park Station, Translux

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. ย  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…

SATAWU Shocked at Attempts to Prevent Workers from Voting

May 7, 2019Zanele SabelaNo comments8 May public holiday, Autopax, national election, President Cyril Ramaphosa, SOEs, Transnet

South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is aghast that state-owned companies Transnet and Autopax are preventing workers from voting in tomorrowโ€™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…

SATAWU Welcomes Management Shake-up at Prasa Group

March 27, 2019Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, City to City, Ig van Rensburg, Nathi Khena, Prasa Acting GCEO Dr Nkosinathi Sishi, Prasa Group, Translux

South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes the removal of Nathi Khena as CEO of Autopax, the state-owned company that operates Translux and City-to-City buses. On Monday the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) announced temporary changes to its leadership and management core in an effort to stabilise the organisation and improve…

SATAWU Members at Translux, City to City Down Tools

December 20, 2018Zanele SabelaNo commentsAutopax, City to City, Sunday pay, Translux, wildcat strike

South African Transport and Allied Workersโ€™ 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…

SATAWU Accepts Latest Offer To End National Bus Strike

April 14, 2017SATAWU2 commentsAutopax, Dual Driver Allowance, National Bus Strike 2017, NUMSA, SATAWU, South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBAC), TAWU, TAWUSA

South African Transport and Allied Workersโ€™ Union (SATAWU) has accepted the latest offer by bus employers effectively bringing the national strike to an end. SATAWU sent its acceptance of the one-year agreement to the South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBAC) on Friday morning. The majority union in the bus sector, TAWUSA and TAWU effectively…

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