Numsa
‘SAPS serve interests of white elite’ – Numsa condemns arrests at Saftu march
Two people were arrested in Cape Town during Wednesday’s nationwide demonstration over concerns around the economy, including the high unemployment rate.
Emergency services are at the scene conducting a search and rescue mission that will not trigger another explosion.
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said, in their bid to save the jobs of 214 employees at Putco, the union had scrutinized the company's finances and discovered financial mismanagement.
The unions want the court to compel the Public Enterprises Department and the airline's business rescue practitioners to pay over three months' deferred salaries.
Numsa staged a picket outside various Macsteel offices around the country on 18 January 2021. The union is demanding that the almost 100 employees who were retrenched in December be reinstated, saying the process was illegal.
According to unions, the business rescue practitioners are offering workers three months remuneration and a 13th cheque but they'll have to let go of the five remaining months’ worth of salaries.
They're demanding outstanding payments, with Numsa and the South African Cabin Crew Association saying their members had not yet been paid any salaries for the past eight months.
Numsa’s spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola called for harsher sentences for gender-based violence (GBV) perpetrators.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Sunday night asked his nearly one million followers on Twitter if the country needed a national airline.
The union is attempting to stop retrenchments at the airline, which operates kulula.com and the British Airways franchise in South Africa.
The union claims it's unlawful and unfair.
The workers are demanding the removal of the provincial secretary Essau Tau from his post for allegedly abusing the office by pushing staff members out of the organisation and instituting disciplinary processes against those outside his circle of friendship.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced that government has allocated another R10.5 billion to the broke airline.
Guatrain put contingency plans in place earlier this month when services were disrupted by a strike.
Numsa members went on strike at the Gautrain last week over a wage dispute with the Bombela Operating Company.
Wage negotiations between the union and Gautrain operator Bombela deadlocked last week after parties failed to find each other on the proposed wage increases.
Wage negotiations between the parties deadlocked leading workers to down tools this week.
Gautrain said services were cancelled for Saturday and Sunday, adding that it’s contingency plans cannot support weekend operations.
Workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa have abandoned their posts calling for a salary hike.