CWAO Media Coverage

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11 March 2024

South Africa women groups pay tribute to Gaza on IWD

South African women's groups celebrated Women's History Month marked from Friday, March 8, International Women's Day, in a sombre mood with a moving nod to the besieged women of Gaza.

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08 March 2024

The SWWF Celebrates International Women's Day

This year we mark International Women's Day in the context of a genocide being carried out against Palestinia women in the Gaza Strip by Israel.

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05 March 2024

LISTEN | Activists slam minimum wage as 'entrenching apartheid's cheap black labour'

The national minimum hourly wage increase from R25.42 to R27.58 entrenches apartheid’s cheap black labour, says the Casual Workers' Advice Office (CWAO).

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19 January 2024

Labour broking alive and well while the CCMA bumbles

Labour-hiring firms still use exploitive labour broking - and the bargaining councils, CCMA and labour court are complicit in this

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19 January 2024

Workers take newly merged Heineken-Distell to the CCMA

Unions say merger conditions set by Competition Tribunal have not been met

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18 October 2023

Pay out workers pensions now!

On 18 October 2023, The Unpaid Benefits Campaign held it's first successful AGM after it's launch in 2017. The AGM was co- hosted by the CWAO/ILRIG at the CWAO offices in Germiston.

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13 October 2023

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) protest against the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

CWAO and Simunye Workers Forum members joined the PSC and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Sandton on 12 October to protest against the Israeli bombings and massacres of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

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05 October 2023

Simba factory workers down tools over 'unfair' transport deductions

The company is in the Labour Court on Thursday afternoon to get an urgent interdict against the strikers

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15 September 2023

Simba lambasted for dismissing 52 temporary workers without valid reasons

The temporary employment service (TES) that provides its employees to snacks company Simba claims that it has not contravened any labour laws pertaining to the recent dismissal of 52 workers who were allegedly notified within nine days of their dismissals.

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07 August 2023

Strike Barometer: Most stoppages linked to wage issues

At least 39 strikes were recorded in the first half of 2023, with the majority concerning wage-related issues including non-payment of wages, overtime and allowances.

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20 July 2023

A Voice for the Unheard

In South Africa, there are millions of people who are informally employed and so often unprotected to their employers and the labour market.

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18 July 2023

Registrar to fight court decision allowing Simunye Workers' Forum to register as a trade union

Labour Court ruling cannot go unchallenged, says Registrar of Labour Relations

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04 July 2023

INSIDE LABOUR | SA's newest union held its first protest. It ended in tragedy

Saturday was the first protest by the SWF as a union recognised as such by the 21 June ruling of Judge André van Niekerk. But then five people got shot, writes Terry Bell.

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27 June 2023

Simunye Workers Forum members shot during protest

Four members of the Simunye Workers Forum and bystanders were shot on Saturday afternoon after a meeting with the owner of a bakery in Germiston, east of Johannesburg.

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27 June 2023

Labour court ruling may prompt more to join workers forums

The judgment overturns a decision by the registrar of trade unions, who refused to register the forum as a trade union

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23 June 2023

Major court victory for trade union

Simunye Workers Forum is a genuine trade union, not "a vehicle for enriching individuals" says judge

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19 June 2023

Labour relations registrar in court for alleged refusal to list workers forum as union

Casual workers' association Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) has launched a case against the registrar of labour relations, Lehlohonolo Molefe, for the alleged refusal to register it as a trade union.

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09 February 2023

Strike activity drops to levels last seen in 2014

A study by the Casual Workers Advice Office shows strike activity falling to levels last seen in 2014, most of them related to wages and related issues.

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08 February 2023

Sydney Moshoaliba of CWAO talks to Kaya FM

Report Finds Sa Strike Activity Has Fallen By 27%

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24 January 2023

Heineken urged to shield Distell casual workers from sexual abuse

Appeals for commitments from Distell to eradicate all abuses of temporary workers

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24 January 2023

Commission for gender equality to launch investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation of vulnerable workers at liquor companies' operations

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has noted disturbing allegations of labour brokers demanding sexual favours from vulnerable job seekers in return for job placements at liquor companies Heineken and Distell

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21 January 2023

Heineken-Distell deal: Brokers demanded sexual favours of temporary workers, tribunal hears

The Competition Tribunal is hearing arguments ahead of its decision about whether Heineken's takeover of Distell should proceed.

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26 November 2022

In conversation with Deliwe Kupe

For POWERBoardroom Sifiso Skenjana talks on the details surrounding a labour broker axing 21 women just before Christmas with Deliwe Kupe - CWAO, Organiser

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22 November 2022

Labour broker axes 21 vulnerable women just before Christmas

The Casual Workers' Advice Office (CWAO) is referring a dispute to the CCCMA for a group of 21 Germiston-based women workers who were fired unjustifiably by the labour broker Phakisa on 18 November 2022.

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27 September 2021

Nowhere to turn for abused bakery workers

Bakery workers in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape were left destitute after their employer, Zahid Desai, chased them from their workplace following a wage dispute

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03 May 2021

Desperate workers say the CCMA is failing them

Covid-19 and the dire financial state of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) have left workers vulnerable to unfair dismissals and con artists who try to exploit them.

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09 April 2021

Workers pay for CCMA services that were once free

CCMA in Benoni 'has outsourced to the internet cafe next door'

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19 November 2020

CCMA remains coy over dumping workers’ reports

The Casual Workers Advice Office released a statement saying they have learned the CCMA will no longer be mediating disputes between employers and employees due to a R600 million budget cut.

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02 July 2020

New Era dismisses six workers in Germiston

New Era’s parent company, Golden Era, issued suspension notices to 86 workers when they refused to work after at least 12 staff members tested positive for Covid-19. On 26 June, six of those workers were dismissed

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09 June 2020

The CCMA in a time of Covid-19: delaying and denying justice?

If the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration can’t even read its emails, it may as well close down

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