Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Actions of Solidarity

Nedlac has negotiated changes to the Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the National Minimum Wage Act – the first is a proposed new Code of Good Practice on Dismissals. Even the trade union federations in Nedlac have agreed to this draft code, which will make it…

Thirty workers and social rights organisations have filed a joint submission to the Department of Employment and Labour and the Parliamentary Committee on Employment and Labour calling for the new Draft Code of Good Practice on Dismissal to be scrapped. They are also demanding public hearings to be held with…

In Buwa Basebetsi Updates this week we revisit the story of Zanthe fresh workers and conclude the segment with our weekly Household Index Buwa Basebetsi updates is produced by The Casual Workers Advice Office. Hosted & produced by Muzi Mzoyi

Last year Mr Sweet fired several workers who went on a protected strike. Fifty-seven of them approached the CCMA and last week they got a decision there that they were satisfied with. Host: Muzi Mzoyi Produced by Charles Leonard; Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi

CWAO Press Release: The national minimum wage entrenches Apartheid’s cheap Black labour The national minimum wage entrenches Apartheid’s cheap Black labour - the working class does not need to know the food poverty line, the lower-bound poverty line or the upper-bound poverty line to know that it is starving. For…