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Barlows company refuses to discuss retrenchments with shop stewards
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Feb 22, 2016

Barlows company refuses to discuss retrenchments with shop stewards

For the second time SA Traction Manufacturing at Germiston has refused to negotiate retrenchments with the Metal and All...

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R200 pension for life!
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Feb 22, 2016

R200 pension for life!

Forty yea old Maria Maseko was one of the first workers discovered to have the cotton dust disease, Brown Lung, in the N...

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Court told to reconsider decision
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Feb 22, 2016

Court told to reconsider decision

The crucial battle to win stop order rights for National Union of Textile Workers' members at Table Bay Spinners has tak...

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TUCSA unions fail to block NUTW
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Feb 22, 2016

TUCSA unions fail to block NUTW

TUCSA unions attending the Congress of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation failed to win su...

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Patons moves to Bophuthatswana
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Feb 22, 2016

Patons moves to Bophuthatswana

British multinational, Coats Patons, has decided to close its two Randfontein factories, lay off all the workers, and th...

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Bakers strike ends in victory
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Feb 22, 2016

Bakers strike ends in victory

One thousand workers in Bakers' Isando and Pinetown factories ended their two week legal strike with a taste of victory.

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Transport workers flock in
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Feb 22, 2016

Transport workers flock in

Goods transport workers are flocking to the Transport and General Workers Union and in the past four months the union ha...

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Food workers issue call for unity
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Feb 22, 2016

Food workers issue call for unity

In building a workers' movement in South Africa, unity is essential, Chris Dlamini, the president of both FOSATU and Swe...

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A milestone!
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Feb 22, 2016

A milestone!

THE settlement signed between the Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Sasol will surely go down as a milestone in Sout...

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Factory wage talks in paper industry
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Feb 22, 2016

Factory wage talks in paper industry

For the first time in the history of the pulp and paper industrial council, employers have agreed to refer the wage nego...

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New maternity benefits at Henkel
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Feb 22, 2016

New maternity benefits at Henkel

Women workers at Henkel at Prospecton will be paid as much as 78 percent of their wages during maternity leave as a resu...

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Demands for metal wage talks
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Feb 22, 2016

Demands for metal wage talks

It's that time of the year again and the yearly tussle at the giant metal industry's industrial council is due to begin.

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Everything set for new federation
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Feb 22, 2016

Everything set for new federation

It looks like everything is set for the formation of the new super federation later this year.

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Working women
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Feb 22, 2016

Working women

'Working Women' will be published by Sached and Ravan Press in May

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How many???
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Feb 22, 2016

How many???

How many people are unemployed at the moment? Every worker knows that the only real answer to this question is that it i...

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