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Clearing up some of the SA ‘strike season’ murk

September 6, 2013

In the face of double-digit wage demands, strikes and strike threats, even more murk than usual seems to surround both sides of the employer/employee divide at a time when clarity is badly needed.

What SA shop stewards really think

August 30, 2013

Critical elements of a long-awaited survey of the attitudes of Cosatu shop stewards are finally available — and they provide much food for analysis and thought.

Democracy needs labour unity

August 23, 2013

Unless trade unions go back to basics, back to democratic control, to accountable and recallable union leaders the immediate future for South Africa's labour movement and for the country’s fledgling democracy could be bleak.

Marikana: a wake-up call still ignored

August 15, 2013

The Marikana massacre was a wake-up call to every concerned citizen to consider the causes of the tragedy in order to be able to say, with hope: Never again.

Labour backs child beating ban

August 2, 2013

South Africa, steeped for generations in the violent resolution of disputes, is about to take a step to get to the roots of the problem.

The rights role of the labour movement

July 25, 2013

Fascism looms and the labour movement has a critical role to play as we face the possibility of the erosion of the democratic choice and individual rights we now enjoy

Red herring: equating socialism & nationalisation

July 19, 2013

The simple nationalism equals socialism equation, widely touted within the trade union movement, has become difficult to sustain — and was dealt with quite comprehensively more than 130 years ago.

Pay rises, policy alternatives & regime change

July 4, 2013

The labour movement has a number of policy alternatives that deserve serious consideration.