NUMSA determined to win 8% increase
Numsa handed a memorandum of demands to the Metal and Engineering Industry Bargaining Council (MEIBC) on the first day of its national strike in the sector.
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For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse
It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street […]
Deep-sea mining: civil society sounds the alarm on the threat posed to biodiversity
Sometimes referred to as the ‘oil of the 21st century’, metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese are used to make the batteries that power […]
Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers
Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest […]
University workers demand insourcing and better working conditions
Led by Giwusa, workers at university residences in major cities in South Africa have gone strike
Teachers in KZN turn to Zikalala for help
Sadtu says there is a shortage of more than 2,000 teachers in KwaZulu-Natal.
Minimum wage still not a living wage after increase
Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.
The shrinking space for journalistic rights and freedoms in Palestine
“It was a Saturday, and the street was full of demonstrators. We were filming the events from a corner,” recalls Shatha Hammad, a 28-year-old Palestinian […]
Informal traders decry lockdown, looting and lack of support from the City of Joburg
Workers in the Informal economy of Johannesburg say that the City has made things hard for them during lockdown.
Education department happy with vaccine rollout – even in Eastern Cape
The department of basic education in the Eastern Cape and nationally claims that Covid vaccination programme in the sector is going well.
Nestlé settles with union to end strike
The acrimonious wage dispute was settled with a 4% increment with Nestlé.
Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued
It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]
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