Platinum firms, striking miners to ‘sit down and talk’
Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union to resume government-facilitated talks next week with world’s top three producersAmcu members ‘barricade Rustenburg roads’
Police say they have received reports of Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union strikers throwing stones at cars, contravening other laws
Much hinges on state-facilitated talks between Amcu, Chamber of Mines
Union, employers’ organisation and labour minister are engaging in government-facilitated talks aimed at shortening platinum sector strike
Opinion
By ignoring the basics, Vavi is losing the battle in Cosatu
Natasha Marrian
Zwelinzima Vavi has always been wildly popular among rank-and-file workers but the past two years of his political career have read like a soap opera
Union gets strike certificate as Mango pilots’ wage talks stall
Trade union Solidarity obtains strike certificate after salary talks for pilots of low-cost airline Mango reach deadlock
Numsa to launch political school in drive towards new alliance
The school, running from Sunday to next Saturday, and comprising Numsa members from various provinces, will examine various versions of a United Front
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EDITORIAL: Strikes not really about wages
Amcu’s motivation is primarily political, which means even if those last-gasp discussions take place the parties will almost certainly be talking past each otherFarm workers’ union dismisses general election
Farm workers’ unions, farming associations and IEC agree to promote voter registration but one union not in any hurry to endorse this year’s polls
Amcu digs in to send 100,000 miners out on strike
CEOs of platinum firms warn Association of Mineworkers and Construction Workers cannot keep its promises
Amcu leader Mathunjwa ‘holds all the cards’ at union
President may not be able to deliver on members’ demands in strikes, writes Carol Paton
South Africa braces for another year of strikes
The new year looks much like the last, and South Africa seems set for another year of labour unrest, writes Johannes Myburgh
State offers to facilitate last-ditch mining wage talks
Union plans to down tools at the world’s three leading platinum companies and SA’s largest gold companies on Thursday
Turmoil in Amcu rises to the surface
Mineworkers allege Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s leaders have become ‘dictatorial’
Northam’s Zondereinde strike could set the field for talks at other mines
Dispute a bellwether for three major platinum companies starting salary talks soon with Amcu
Expertise flows back into SA as brain drain is reversed
Survey shows that since the global financial crisis began in 2008, a net 359,000 high-skilled South Africans have returned from foreign work assignments
ANC dismisses DA’s planned jobs march as provocation
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille intends to lead 6,000 unemployed young people to African National Congress headquarters to demand 6-million ‘real jobs’
Amcu puts gold strike on hold as court stalls judgment
Strike by Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union in gold sector due to start on Thursday has been put on hold
ANC gives itself five years to investigate minimum wage
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant says department will over next five years devise proposals to give effect to promise in African National Congress election manifesto
Amcu set to make a stand at platinum, gold mines
Union to down tools this week at world’s top three platinum producers and bring long-awaited pressure to bear on gold sector
Northam strikers ‘gave up 21% of annual earnings for 9.5% increase’
Workers at Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde mine have agreed to end 11-week wage strike that cost both them and the company greatly
Opinion
Parties trot out the same old jobs fantasy
Steven Friedman
It is election time again and the season to turn up the volume on that popular South African fantasy — the job-creation debate
Opinion
Amcu the thorn in Kgalema Motlanthe’s side
Sipho Hlongwane
No better person to drive change in mining industry than Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe but some things are out of his control
Opinion
Tripartite alliance’s fate in Cosatu leadership’s hands
Natasha Marrian
Numsa poised to take decisions at special congress that will put it on collision course with Cosatu
- Platinum sector on brink of new strikes
- Cosatu to push Numsa to toe the line
- NUM rejects Northam’s new wage offer
- STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Cosatu standoff revives battle of 30 years ago
- Adcorp reports uptick in permanent employment after 16 months
- Amcu members vote to strike at Implats
- EDITORIAL: Numsa a sign of things to come
- Eskom workers get 6.3% wage increase
- Chamber of Mines hails ‘good progress’ in labour market
- Amcu prepares for platinum strike after getting mandate at Implats
- ANC to look at national minimum wage
- DA seeks rethink on collective bargaining and closed shops
- Vavi balks at moves to make him an ANC MP
- Mines on high alert as strike threatened
- Vavi charges include travel irregularities, breaking terms of suspension
- Rousing welcome for suspended Vavi on second day of Numsa congress
- Numsa digs in against Zuma over Nkandla
- Numsa may start broad drive for recruits
- Numsa and Cosatu dare each other to sever ties
- Another Lonmin mine worker shot dead
- Numsa gears up for hard choices over alliance
- Services at Durban hospital resume as nurses suspend strike
- Cedric Gina resignation bad news for Zwelinzima Vavi
- Gold companies to seek interdict against Amcu strike
- Call to extend short-term employment incentives
- Interunion rivalry in spotlight at mines
- Some unions rethink ‘winner takes all’ principle
- Northam Platinum strike ends as NUM accepts wage offer
- Zuma says ANC cannot co-govern with Cosatu
- Suspended Vavi receives charges from Cosatu
- Industrial action to remain in the spotlight
- Cosatu not ‘confused’ about voting for ANC
- EFF to court Numsa over united workers’ front
- Labour turbulence expected in year ahead
- Metalworkers union wants President Zuma out
- Cosatu to step up fight over youth subsidy
- Cosatu refuses to expel Numsa despite transgressions
- Northam Platinum digs in heels over NUM strike
- Youth ‘need to create jobs, not look for jobs’
- Police union ‘wants Vavi to be stripped of award’
- Numsa labels ANC as ‘no longer democratic’
- Numsa fires first alliance salvo over Nkandla upgrades
- Cosatu will be diminished, whoever wins this battle
- Numsa debates its future in politics
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