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Court dismisses Numsa, Sacca's urgent bid to halt SAA retrenchments
Unions Numsa and the South African Cabin Crew Association approached the Labour Court to interdict the airline from cutting jobs.
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Numsa, Sacca file urgent court application to halt SAA job cuts
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said that they were expecting the Labour Court to hear their application on Thursday.
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Hisense's Atlantis factory fully operational again after strike
Workers affiliated with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) downed their tools last month demanding better pay.
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Numsa rejects Telkom's reasoning behind plan to cut 3,000 jobs
Telkom has blamed the sluggish economy for its decision to cut jobs.
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Numsa, Sacca in 'unacceptable' compromise with SAA over restructuring plans
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said that some of the conditions included the retrenchment of over 900 workers to help save the airline.
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Production at Hisense's Atlantis factory halted for a week over wage strike
The 300 employees are on strike demanding better pay - they want a 15% wage hike.
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Non-striking National Transport Movement pens wage deal with SAA
The union's president Mashudu Raphetha said that the wage deal was subject to SAA securing additional funds and that the salary increase would start from February next year.
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SAA scrambling to secure funds for day-to-day operations
SAA has advised workers to make arrangements with their banks because it is not guaranteed that they will be paid.
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Numsa: SAA strike a fight for survival
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said unions would not sit back and watch as workers were used as sacrifices for SAA management's failures and corruption.
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Consultative talks between SAA, unions set to go under way on Monday
Two weeks ago, the national carrier announced that 944 people could lose their jobs.
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Numsa, Sacca accuse SAA of declaring war after wage talks break down
Unions are putting more pressure on the airline, with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) serving a secondary strike notice on catering company Air Chefs.
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Numsa serves SAA with secondary strike notice
The latest move comeas after talks between trade unions and SAA brooke down on Tuesday night.
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SAA says it's secured R2bn from banks to stay afloat
Embattled SAA said that it has managed to secure the help of various banks to keep it in business.
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SAA's challenges a result of state capture corruption, says Parly committee
Parliament’s Public Enterprises Committee also slammed utterances by unions calling on South Africans not to fly with SAA as reckless and sabotage of the national carrier.
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SAA awaits date from CCMA to meet with striking unions
The troubled airline will resume flights to six African destinations on Tuesday amid a strike.
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SAA provides CAA with strike contingency plan for safe operation
The national carrier denied claims that it was using unqualified staff to fill in for striking staff.
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Still no word from SAA on domestic flights as strike continues
Sacca said that trade unions would meet Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan in Pretoria this morning in a fresh bid to resolve the crippling SAA strike.
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SAA announces 6 continental flights to resume from Tuesday amid strike
It said customers travelling on the airline's regional network to Accra, Lagos, Lusaka, Maputo, Windhoek and Harare would be rebooked and could expect to be contacted shortly.
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SAA denies 'malicious' union claims that its flights unsafe
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) warned on Sunday that passenger safety could not be guaranteed after the airline reinstated international flights.
