SATAWU Reflection on the Planned Privatisation of the Passenger and Freight Rail Sector
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We have learnt that PRASA is adopting an antagonistic approach coupled with blackmail, smearing campaign and the old tactic of divide and rule against SATAWU and its members. This is from a background where parties entered into intensive Salary Negotiations as from 03 – 06 August 2020 after consolidation with their counterparts UNTU. During…
SATAWU Welcomes Appointment of Transnet Group Executive
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes the appointment of Portia Derby as Group Chief Executive of Transnet. Derby’s appointment was recommended by the Transnet Board and supported by Cabinet after a rigorous selection process. She brings with her extensive experience having worked at the Department of Public Enterprises as Director General during…
SATAWU to March on Royal Thai Embassy
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) will on 7 November, march on the Royal Thai Embassy in Pretoria, in solidarity with the State Enterprise Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC). SATAWU will deliver a letter for the attention of Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, calling on him to drop charges against 13 leaders of…
Port strikes will bring SA economy ‘to a standstill’, says Satawu
SA’s embattled economy could be hurt further when activity in the country’s busiest ports grinds to a halt with a planned protest by members of the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) on Thursday. The union warned on Tuesday that it would embark on a total shutdown of the country’s ports over salary discrepancies…
SATAWU To Down Tools and Shutdown SA Ports
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members at Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) are set to down tools at 6am on Thursday, 30 May, in a strike that will see a total shutdown of the country’s ports. SATAWU served the strike notice to TNPA on Monday morning after the Transnet Bargaining Council issued…
SATAWU Shocked at Attempts to Prevent Workers from Voting
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…