South African government faces legal threat over crippling blackouts
Political oppositions and labour leaders are preparing a lawsuit against the ANC government over the debilitating loadshedding.
Political oppositions and labour leaders are preparing a lawsuit against the ANC government over the debilitating loadshedding.
Transnet and labour unions will meet Wednesday in an effort to end a strike over wages that’s slowing the flow of goods in and out of SA.
Labour unions at ports and freight-rail company Transnet threatened to begin a strike this week after rejecting its latest wage offer.
The ongoing strike against Clover, South Africa’s foods and beverages company, is an indicator of how destructive labour unions have become in the country.
South Africa’s government is holding firm in a wage dispute with labour unions that represent more than 1.2 million workers.
Leadership of the ANC called an emergency meeting to discuss the government’s plans to curb its wage bill – a move that has angered its labour-union allies.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told reporters before his speech that getting the “house in order’ was going to be a difficult process and everybody had to sacrifice.
South Africa’s biggest labour unions rejected a government proposal to increase the national minimum wage by 5%.
South Africa’s public-service union called for urgent talks with the government on plans to reduce the state’s wage bill.
The Labour Court of South Africa blocked a planned strike by banking workers on Friday, ruling that labour unions failed to comply with rules allowing demonstrations.