SAPO’s answer to lower demand – hike the price. Huh?

With a world that’s becoming increasingly digital, the SA Post Office’s annual rates increase has occurred without much publicity both through the media and at Post Offices around South Africa.

Two unions to take Telkom to court over planned retrenchments

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Two unions representing some of Telkom SA’s workers said on Tuesday they would take the South African landline provider to court over possible retrenchments. The South Africa Communications Union (SACU) said it believed Telkom was about to let go of about 9,000 of its 19,000 employees over the next six months, a claim the company … Read more

Solidarity wins interdict against Continental Tyres over layoffs

From Solidarity:   The urgent interdict that trade union Solidarity obtained today against Continental Tyres to stop the company’s unfair retrenchment process is not merely a small victory, but is in fact a larger victory in the struggle against the marginalisation of minority trade unions in the workplace, the union says. Solidarity was granted an urgent … Read more