South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is exploring all avenues including approaching the Labour Court to seek an urgent interdict against South African Airways (SAA) bid to retrench almost one thousand workers. SAA announced its intention to retrench 945 workers in the media late on Monday but did not bother notifying unions within…
South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) members at Putco will picket outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Friday. SATAWU’s lawyers will go up against bus company Putco for not paying workers’ annual wage increase and bonuses in line with the agreement signed last May after workers downed tools for 28 days. 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…
Durban – A dispute over claims of religious discrimination between a group of employees and management at a road freight company has had a bitter ending. Time Freight CEO Etienne van Ravesteyn on Thursday confirmed that a number of employees had been dismissed following what the company believed was an illegal and unprotected strike. On…
