The Congress of South African Trade Unions is calling on all workers, members of the Alliance and communities to support the upcoming Marikana rally that will take place on Sunday 17 November 2019.The Marikana tragedy is a classic example of the immorality of Capitalism and its festering greed. COSATU with all affiliated unions and Alliance […]
COSATU calls on government to halt closure of Arcelor Mittal’s Saldanha Bay Steel Plant
COSATU is deeply alarmed and concerned about Arcelor Mittal’s (AMSA) intention to close its Saldanha steel plant. The closure will affect about 900 workers at the plant but also 1200 sub-contracted workers, the entire Saldanha Bay economy and the steel industry value chain. The economy of Saldanha is already suffering from high levels of unemployment […]
SATAWU to interdict SAA proposed retrenchments
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) will today approach the Labour Court to seek an urgent interdict against South African Airways (SAA) bid to retrench almost one thousand workers. SAA announced its intention to retrench 945 workers in the media late on Monday but did not bother notifying unions within its own Organised […]
POPCRU supports the upcoming Marikana Rally
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) support the call by COSATU and our sister union the NUM to ensure there is improved safety and security of all workers in all workplaces across our country. It is in this sense that we call on all workers and communities to support the upcoming Marikana rally […]
Statement of the Alliance Political Council
The Alliance Political Council comprising the National Officials of the Alliance formations held a Plenary Session on Sunday and Monday, 10 – 11 November 2019 at Luthuli House in Johannesburg. The meeting took place against the background of national, continental and international developments with far-reaching implications. The Alliance Political Council reaffirmed the continuing strategic relevance […]
COSATU Gauteng denounces Luthuli House’s statement on e-tolls
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in Gauteng is taken aback by the latest pronouncement by Luthuli House through ANC National Spokesperson Cde Pule Mabe that people of Gauteng must carry the debt of the e-tolling system. We are even shocked by his myopic comparison of the e-tolls system to the cell phone […]
COSATU statement on the SAA planned retrenchments
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is deeply disturbed by the announcement that about 1000 South African Airways employees are likely to be retrenched as part of the company’s restructuring. We are disturbed by the reckless way that the airline is handling its restructuring process because unions have not been consulted and briefed about […]
Government should take responsibility for its policy failures and leave the workers alone
The current offensive that is currently directed at the public service employees, led by the National Treasury is alarming but not surprising for COSATU. Public Service employees are being unfairly singled out and targeted by some inflammatory and misleading rhetoric, with a narrative being created that the public sector wage bill is threatening the state’s […]
NEHAWU and SACP to picket at both USA and Turkish Embassies tomorrow
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] and the South African Communist Party [SACP] will demonstrate tomorrow at the embassies of the United States of America [USA] and Turkey in Pretoria. The picket at the US embassy is part of the international campaign against American imperialist aggression in the world, and the genocidal […]
COSATU will present its submission and proposals to Parliament’s Medium-Term Budget
COSATU will present its submission and proposals to Parliament’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement public hearings tomorrow at 10 am -Wednesday 06 November, Old Assembly, Parliament. South Africa’s faces its greatest economic and governance crises since 1994: · Unemployment is at 40% and the highest since 2008; · 1000s of workers are retrenched monthly; · 400 000 new job seekers […]