Liberty Liquors (Pty) Ltd v Sactwu (D1238/16) [2016] ZALCD 20 (29 September 2016) per AJ Steenkamp J. The LC interdicted a proposed strike by a rival trade union. The bargaining unit comprised three outlets and a new collective...
Read More“At a recent national executive committee (NEC) meeting, union leaders reportedly engaged in a heated debate on the issue. Fawu has been at odds with the federation since the expulsion of the National Union of Mineworkers and...
Read MoreMsimang admits that the SACP played a big role in the liberation struggle, and mentions leaders such as Slovo, JB Marks and Moses Kotane. But its current crop of leaders are just not at that level. “If the communist...
Read MoreProfessors Nattrass and Seekings have warned about the serious consequences of introducing an unrealistic minimum wage in South Africa. In particular the International Labour Organisation (ILO) stresses that policy-makers...
Read MoreCapitalism can be defined as “voluntary exchange between individuals free of third party intervention”. In a capitalist system every transaction is voluntary, there is fierce competition between competing suppliers to provide...
Read More“Addressing Cosatu’s national congress in Midrand on Wednesday, Ms Oliphant said while the federation was the most vocal critic of labour broking, some of its affiliates’ investment arms had stakes in such companies. She...
Read MoreAccording to press reports at the Cosatu conference currently in progress a proposal was adopted that the deputy president should lead the alliance from 2017 and presumably become the president of South Africa thereafter. It...
Read MoreBased on a full report by Amy Musgrave on page 6 of the Star today and referred to by SALN today: Chasm at Nedlac between labour and business over minimum wage widens The Star writes that an agreement on a national minimum wage...
Read MoreNatasha Marrian reports that Cosatu has bemoaned “business unionism” and rampant corruption in its ranks in a frank political report to be discussed at its coming national congress. It also admits that federation...
Read MoreTwo reports by Natasha Marrian today suggest that all is not well in the union movement. Apart from arrests during a Samwu meeting of top leaders there are also splits in a number of unions such as Ceppawu, Sadtu, Numsa, Nehawu...
Read MoreYesterday SALN referred to a report by Getrude Makhafola in Business Report on 11 August 2015 that the Liberated Metalworkers Union of SA (Limusa) has accused its rival, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), of...
Read More“Curiouser and curiouser, Cosatu opposes the FMF, which supports what Cosatu says it wants: jobs for all, free trade unions, collective bargaining, decent work and wages, fair labour practices, and the like, all of which are...
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