FAWU is taking legal advice and weighing its options regarding the earmarked large-scale retrenchment in Sabmiller-owned ABI Coca Cola bottler

14 April 2014

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) will be calling for an urgent meeting with the Directors of South African Breweries (SAB) and its owned ABI Coca Cola bottling company with a view to placing moratorium on the comprehensive restructuring program to get rid of 1 400 jobs of the 3 600 permanent jobs, a 37% of the workforce.

COSATU NW hold protest march against Tharisa Mine

14 April 2014

The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the NW, with the support of SANCO and other alliance structures, will be leading a protest action against Tharisa mine at the Marikina area.

Speech Delivered by the COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini at the NUM Shop Stewards Council on 9th April 2014, Boksburg

11 April 2014

We want to thank you for your commitment, dedication and readiness to sacrifice your life in defence of the NUM. We know that choosing to be a Shop Steward of NUM is a choice between life and death. No month passes without news of the brutal murder of an NUM Shop Steward or member.

COSATU Statement on the 14th 2013 Employment Equity Report

11 April 2014

COSATU welcomes the rude awakening presented by the 2013 Employment Equity Report. We are very active in the labour market and have always said that whilst the general South African body politic has been saved from racism and the teachings of Verwoerd, the South African workplace still represents the past.

FAWU press statement on the 50% equity stake for farm workers in farming operations

11 April 2014

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), after several days of pondering and analysis, arrived at a conclusion that the proposal to have farm workers enjoying 50% equity stakes in farming operations they work for should be cautiously welcomed.