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NUM continues to campaign for job security

N UM continues to campaign for job security in the Mining Industry and also attended the Mining Indaba as held at Midrand, attended all key stakeholders. NUM raised concerns with selling of Amplats and retrenchments at

Resources Development (MPRDA)Act of 2002 section 52 which states that if the company anticipate to retrench 10% or more employees it has to inform the Minister of Minerals Resources”. NUM held its successful Central Committee meeting at Boksburg around July 2014.

Helam Mine, a division of Pedra at Swartruggens wherein 421 permanent workers may be affected. NUM argued that “The company is not supposed to talk about Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act of 1995 before they comply with Minerals and Pretroleum

NEHAWU celebrated Women’s Month

N EHAWU celebrated Women’s Month with various workplace and Gender Seminars organized across the country. And in one forum Cde Lorma Nkete from Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital was honoured as one of the long serving Branch Member. NEHAWU in a statement said “The revolution and women’s liberation

NEHAWU Gauteng said “We pledge solidarity with the people of Cuba against the continuing unjust economic blockade by the USA”. Meanwhile, Public Service mandating processes are underway, with NEHAWU collating mandates from its constituencies.

go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.”-Sankara. Meanwhile, on the International front, NEHAWU led successful marches to support the struggles on the people of Palestine and CUBA.

CWUSA mobilizes all creative arts practitioners

A popular soapies in South Africa, Generations sent shocking airwaves by ‘sacking’ sixteen Actors after a fall out of wage and other related ‘bread and butter’ issues. CWUSA organizing the creative arts practitioners condemned the intrasingent act by the ‘employers’. ‘It is unbecoming of any employer to respond to written demands by a dismisal. It is in fact illegal to respond to written demands by means of intimidation and worse now that the intimidation has resulted in a

their employers only. While 28,6 % employees had a union membership in Q2: 2014 , Unions negotiated salary increments for 21,3% of employees. About 6% of employees had no regular salary increment in Q2: 2014.-STATSSA, Q2, 2014. And Actors are amongst the vulnerable workers, whose wage negotiations are in the main determined by ‘employers’. CWUSA continues to mobilize all creative arts practitioners to protect their needle-rights, payola and other related substantive matters.

dismissal. We therefore call for all parties to go back into the negotiation table to re look at best possibilities’, said SASBO CWUSA cited the un-helpless role by the SABC as another contributing dimension. ‘We have called many meetings, with promises to take up all issues shelved’, said Cde Eugene Mthethwa, CWUSA Acting General Secretary. ‘Most employees (53,8%) had their salary increments determined by

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