Numsa
Numsa slams aviation sector for not paying out UIF benefits to workers
Numsa argued that the department didn’t disclose when they will begin to disburse the special coronavirus grants again.
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Public Enterprises to continue to assess interest in restructuring SAA
The Public Enterprises Department said it received 20 expressions of interest from private sector funders, private equity investors and partners for a restructured SAA.
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Numsa, SACCA give DPE another week to find money for SAA restructuring plan
Workers have been picketing outside the SAA park offices.
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Numsa, Sacca picket outside SAA offices after govt misses funding deadline
Workers demonstrated after government missed a deadline to make funding available for a restructuring plan.
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Numsa, SACCA to picket outside SAA offices on Friday over funding of new airline
In a statement on Thursday evening, the unions said it was a disgrace that the business rescue process is still ongoing, adding that this places the cash strapped carrier in danger of liquidation.
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Numsa's Court bid for Comair to pay workers' salaries to be heard next week
Earlier this week, Comair published its business rescue plan, indicating it will take to the skies again in December.
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Numsa takes Comair to court to force it to pay salaries
The airline has not paid workers’ salaries since the start of June and it’s believed Comair has also forced unpaid leave on its staff.
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Numsa, SACCA urge members at SAA not to sign any voluntary severance packages
The airline is waiting for funding from government to pay out the approved packages.
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ArcelorMittal using COVID-19 as excuse to retrench, says Numsa
The union said the global steel producing firm was using the COVID-19 pandemic as a scapegoat to leave employees without work.
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Labour Court dismisses SAA’s BRPs bid to overturn ruling halting retrenchments
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and South African Cabin Crew Association took the practitioners to court last month to halt the layoff of workers.
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Take SAA's severance packages or risk it with liquidation, dept to unions
The department said it had given everything it could to the voluntary severance packages and would not consider the union’s demands, which it called unreasonable.
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Numsa threatens to take govt to court over taxi industry loading rules
Under the lockdown regulations, taxi drivers are only allowed to load their vehicles to 70% capacity but many are now ignoring the rules in order to make more money.
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DPE: Postponement of creditors meeting may scare away potential SAA investors
The department announced on Sunday that it was pulling out of the leadership consultative forum established to find a way to work with unions to try to save the embattled airline.
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Unions welcome court ruling paving way for vote on SAA’s rescue plan
Creditors were expected to vote on whether to implement the business rescue practitioners’ (BRPs) controversial business plan to save the broke airline.
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Numsa ‘not shocked’ by Comair BRPs postponing release of rescue plan
Numsa, which is a majority union at the struggling company, said it was planning on taking the company to court after it wasn’t consulted ahead of the publication in line with the Companies Act.
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Numsa, Sacca accuse DPE of engaging in bad faith over SAA's future
The unions said they were dismayed with the content published by SAA's business rescue practitioners in conjunction with the department.
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Unions at SAA to use extension to submit improvements on rescue plan
The unions said the plan as is lacked substance and needs to be tested by the labour sector.
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Labour Court rules in Numsa’s favour over Macsteel strike
Numsa members were on strike at the steel company since May, accusing management of reducing workers’ salaries by 20% without consulting them.
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Numsa accuses Kusasalethu Mine of abandoning its workers
Numsa claims at least 66 mineworkers are stranded at the hostel without money to return home after they were told there was no space for them.
