CWAO IN THE NEWS
Press Releases
Press Release
29 February 2024
The national minimum wage entrenches Apartheid's cheap Black labour
The 1 March increase in the national minimum wage from R25.42 to R27.45 has been hailed in many quarters, most particularly by Cosatu. This alone should make us suspicious, given the federation's consistently anti-worker politics.
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
Press Release
23 November 2023
Simunye Workers Forum defeats snack giant Simba in the Labour Court!
The SWF won a victory against snack manufacturing giant Simba in the Johannesburg Labour Court on 21 November, with Simba forced to withdraw its bid for a permanent interdict against deemed permanent workers together with permanent workers who went on strike over Simba cancelling the free transport it used to provide.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
07 November 2023
CCMA orders farm owner to pay R81 000 in backpay to workers
A Johannesburg businessman accused of short-paying his staff has been ordered by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to pay just over R81 000 to his 21 employees.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
06 November 2023
CCMA case against Zanthe Fresh
Casual workers affiliated with the Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO) and Simunye Workers' Forum (SWF) have won a case in the CCMA against Zanthe Fresh, a farm on the West Rand that refused to pay workers the legal minimum wage since June 2023.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
15 August 2023
Joint Simunye Workers Forum/Casual Workers' Advice Office Press Statement
The Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) and Casual Workers' Advice Office (CWAO) are heartened that Labour Court judge Andre van Niekerk has dismissed with costs the Registrar of Labour Relations' application for leave to appeal his ruling that the Registrar must register the SWF as a trade union.
Category: SWF / CWAO
Press Release
16 July 2023
Registrar of Labour Relations' new court appeal again leaves tens of thousands of casual workers out in the cold
The SWF and CWAO note that the Registrar of Labour Relations has decided to waste tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of rands of public money in appealing the Labour Court decision that ordered him to register the SWF as a trade union by 12 July 2023.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
28 June 2023
SAFTU condemns shooting of Simunye Workers Forum members
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is angered by the criminal and senseless shooting of workers belonging to Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) and two by-standers, in Germiston on Saturday, 24 June 2023.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
27 June 2023
SWF activists and a CWAO board member shot with live ammunition in Germiston yesterday
Yesterday, 24 June 2023, at about 1:30pm, 50 members of the SWF and CWAO held a peaceful march after their general meeting in Germiston to Golden Bakery at 79 Plantation Road, Germiston. The activists children who had been playing at the meeting, were also present at the march, which was very peaceful.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
13 June 2023
Simunye Workers Forum takes Registrar of Labour Relations to Labour Court on 14 June 2023
On Wed 14 June, the Labour Court in Johannesburg will hear an appeal by the Simunye Workers Forum against the Registrar of Labour Relations refusal to register the SWF as a trade union