Postal services in South Africa risk being disrupted later this week as a union says nationwide strike action is going ahead. The Communication Workers Union last week threatened to strike on 5-6 May to demand higher annual pay rises for South
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Around 90% of workers at the South African Post Office could go on a two-day strike next week, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has warned. Post Office employees have not received salary increases for two years, the head of
The Communication Workers Union has called on the ANC to stop job losses in state-owned enterprises. In a memorandum handed over to an ANC official at the party’s Luthuli House
Chants of “voetsek” reverberated outside MTN’s head office on Wednesday as the Communication Workers Union (CWU) called for pay hikes at the telecommunications firm. Over 100 workers
Members of the Communication Workers Union employed by the Post Office have embarked on a go-slow, effective Thursday, over grievances, with the union warning that a full-blown strike may be on the cards at the embattled state-owned company. If workers
Mail is piling up at the Witspos post office south of Johannesburg. The mail floor, a giant warehouse the size of about three rugby fields, is almost deserted. Piles of parcels and boxes and sacks of letters are stacked on the floor. A few postal employees sort through the mail in
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) vowed on Thursday to resist job losses at Telkom after the company announced plans to retrench a thousand workers. “We will defend job losses. We want Telkom to engage us on what are the issues,” CWU deputy president Clyde Mervin told reporters in Johannesburg. He said the union could
The Communication Workers Union’s dispute with the South African Post Office is not over, the union said on Friday. “We would like to put on record that our dispute with the Post Office over several issues, key to them being salary increments, remains in force,” general secretary Thabo Mogalane
Services at Telkom and the Post Office will be shut down if demands by workers are not met, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Mass action by 23 000 workers was planned for the first week of September, CWU