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Move to interdict Cosatu strike at Sun City
Sun City :: AZ :: USA | 3 days ago
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Sun International is seeking an urgent interdict to prevent what it considers to be an illegal strike by members affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the hotel group said on Wednesday. "Sun International is seeking an urgent...
Tags: Cosatu, Sun City, Sun International, service providers, strike actions, Politics of South Africa, ICFTU African Regional Organisation, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Labor, Law Crime, Strike action
Cosatu, ANC rift deepens
Polokwane :: South Africa | 5 days ago
Credibility The federation has admitted the alliance formed to oust former president Thabo Mbeki as ANC leader in Polokwane in December 2007 had no other unifying ideology. Cosatu's General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said it was an organised faction within the upper...
Tags: ANC, Cosatu, South Africa, Polokwane, African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Communist Party, National Executive Committee, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Year of birth missing, Xhosa people
Cosatu: Reserve Bank should target employment
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 9 days ago
Credibility The central bank should target employment when deciding on interest rates, and worry less about inflation when the economy is struggling, a top Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) official said on Thursday. Head of policy Chris Malikane also...
Tags: Cosatu, South African Reserve Bank, central bank, Chris Malikane, printing money, target employment, million jobs, South Africa, Johannesburg, Central banks, Business Finance, Economic policy, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Real interest rate, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Monetary policy
Gordhan: Protectionism a risk to global growth
Cape Town :: South Africa | 10 days ago
Credibility Trade protectionism is a serious risk to global economic growth as countries emerge from recession, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday. In a speech prepared for delivery to the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, Gordhan also...
Tags: Cosatu, South Africa, Cape Town, Business Finance, Zwelinzima Vavi, Congress of South African Trade Unions, International trade, Politics, Economic policy, Exchange rate, Inflation, Macroeconomics, Year of birth missing, Monetary policy, International economics, Xhosa people, South African Reserve Bank, Politics of South Africa, ICFTU African Regional Organisation, Pravin Gordhan, Protectionism, South African rand, Inflation targeting, Economy of South Africa
'What Freedom Charter are they reading?' asks Irvin Jim
Cape Town :: South Africa | 16 days ago
Credibility New faces of militancy in Cosatu have emerged following the expulsion of Willie Madisha from Cosatu, the quiet retreat of its general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi from the forefront, and the changing nature of the relationship between trade union federation...
Tags: ANC BEE, Numsa, Cosatu, South African Reserve Bank, reserve banks, South Africa, Cape Town, Congress of South African Trade Unions, ICFTU African Regional Organisation, Zwelinzima Vavi, Thabo Mbeki, Tito Mboweni, Xhosa people, Year of birth missing, Politics of South Africa
ARV programme may be extended
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility The health ministry is doing cost studies on extending its antiretroviral therapy programme to HIV carriers with a higher CD4 count, deputy director general Kamy Chetty said on Friday. Chetty confirmed to Sapa that this was possibly linked to a policy...
Tags: Jacob Zuma, South Africa, president jacob, Cosatu, SA Communist Party, Pravin Gordhan, ANC
Why SA labour must avoid the 'gang mentality' approach
Wednesday last week (October 7) provided a classic example of intolerance in the labour movement followed by weasel words and downright lies to cloud the issue. The incident was a parliamentary portfolio committee public hearing on labour brokers...
Tags: labour, labor, ANC, PAC, trade unions, Cosatu, ITUC, ILO, Germiston, brokers, OSD, Christ Kloppers, Eliam Biyela, Henry Isaacs, UWC, New Zealand, anti apartheid
The Times, South Africa: Cosatu to picket over labour brokers
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility Pickets are planned across the country on Wednesday as part of a global worker protest organised by the International Trade Union Confederation. "Here in South Africa the focus will be on labour broking, which Cosatu has vowed to see outlawed," the union...
Tags: labour brokers, Cosatu
Why South Africa needs to debate trade union federation's resolutions
Less than a week after the national congress of South Africa’s largest trade union federation, Cosatu, ended on September 24, a national radio debate was organised to discuss the resolutions of this gathering. But it was cancelled at the last...
Tags: trade unions, federation, communist, ANC, philosophy, politics, Cosatu, tripartite alliance, GEAR, Zuma, socialism, Marx, Lenin, Marxism-Leninism, Stalin, Stalinism
Manuel caught in Cosatu’s crosshairs
Polokwane :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility Trade union federation Cosatu has declared war on Trevor Manuel, the minister in the presidency responsible for the national planning commission (NPC), accusing him of trying to take over the running of the country. The labour federation also took aim...
Tags: Trevor Manuel, Cosatu, South Africa, Polokwane
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