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June 2025

The New Worker Newsletter June 2025

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March 2025

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Nov 2024

The New Worker Newsletter November 2024

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July 2024

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The New Worker Voices

CWAO News Article

25 September 2025

CHEP-SA strike action

SWF and community members are currently striking outside CHEP-SA

Category: CHEP-SA

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CWAO News Article

29 August 2025

Chep strikers take the struggle global!

On 28 August 2025, the Chep strike took on a global dimension. Workers and supporters went to protest outside the Australian High Commission in Pretoria.

Category: CHEP-SA

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CWAO News Article

12 July 2025

Workers mobilise for the Simunye Workers' Forum (SWF) Annual General Meeting

The SWF AGM will be held on 26 July, 2025. On 12 July, workers from 15 workplaces in Gauteng gathered for a preparatory workshop.

Category: EDUCATION

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CWAO News Article

11 June 2025

National campaign to oppose changes to labour laws picks up speed

About 100 organisations from across the country turned out on 10 June 2025 at the Workers Museum in Joburg and on Zoom to join the campaign against planned changes to the labour laws

Category: SCRAP THE LABOUR AMENDMENT BILLS

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CWAO News Article

09 June 2025

The New Worker Edition: June 2025

In this edition, we continue with our campaign against the changes to the labour laws and other stories

Category: SCRAP THE LABOUR AMENDMENT BILLS

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CWAO News Article

28 May 2025

Global Day of Action against Glencore

Global Day of Action against Glencore: On 28 May 2025, CWAO and Simunye Workers Forum comrades turned out in full support of the Joburg protest against Glencore!

Category: PROTEST ACTION

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CWAO News Article

27 May 2025

We need a minimum wage of at least R45 per hour

Buwa Basebetsi producer Tebadi Mmotla interviewed Happiness Somhlahlo, who works at Zoomarati.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

21 May 2025

May Day Celebration turned to protest

The SWF, CWAO, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and many other organisations have been campaigning against the secret negotiations between other union federations, government and business at Nedlac to amend the labour laws.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

30 March 2025

The New Worker Edition: March 2025

In this edition, the new NMW takes centre stage follwed by various current issues facing our workers

Category: WORKERS' RIGHTS

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CWAO News Article

25 March 2025

176 PepsiCo workers fight back against unfair deductions!

In January 2024, PepsiCo deducted as much as half the salaries of many of the workers at their factory in Ceres in the rural Western Cape. They did this without consulting or even informing the workers.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

10 March 2025

Newedge Technology workers enforce the national minimum wage

Workers at Newedge Technology in Sebenza, Edenvale won a victory recently through their organising and united efforts.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

15 February 2025

A life in activism and the farm workers' struggle

Shopsteward and regional chairperson in the Namibia Farm Workers Union spoke to CWAO's Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima about his life in activism and the farm workers' struggle

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

30 January 2025

Hard times in Ndarhala, Alfred Nzo municipality in the Eastern Cape

In Ndarhala, the roads are very bad.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

16 December 2024

M&N Waste forced to backpay workers more than R300 000 in underpaid National Minimum Wage payments!

Workers employed by plastic and box recycling company, M&N Waste of Boksburg, won a victory at the CCMA.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

15 December 2024

CWAO will represent 176 PepsiCo workers against unfair deductions

In January 2024, PepsiCo deducted as much as half the salaries of many of the workers at their factory in Ceres in the rural Western Cape. They did this without consulting or even informing the workers.

CWAO assists 176 workers in referring the case to the CCMA.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

05 December 2024

The New Worker

Issue: November 2024

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

11 November 2024

Why the Mister Sweet strike mattered

Workers at the Mister Sweet confectionery factory in Wadeville, Gauteng, began a strike on 19 August, which ended 11 weeks later. The company is owned by Premier FMCG, one of the oldest food and consumer packaged goods businesses in South Africa.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

24 October 2024

Enough is enough to crime in Daveyton Mayfield!

The Ward 96 community of Ekurhuleni celebrated a meeting on Saturday 12 October 2024 in Mayfield Park

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

20 July 2024

The difficulties faced by unorganised workers at plant or factory level

The difficulties faced by unorganised workers at plant or factory level are the result of many reasons that are caused by the system that we find ourselves living by.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

20 July 2024

Being a Foreigner

It is very sad and painful indeed for Black people who really don't know who they are or the difficulties that other people are facing in the real world.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

20 July 2024

Pit toilets in Delmore Informal settlement, Ekurhuleni

After 30 years of democracy, the community of Delmore Informals in the city of Ekurhuleni is still using pit toilets and communal taps.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

18 July 2024

Woman and culture

There's no room for giving up as a woman.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

16 July 2024

My story is based on how I am treated at work.

I am working at Pepsico Park on a frozen contract with employees from many different departments.

Category: WORKERS' STORIES

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CWAO News Article

15 July 2024

Discrimination at Bakers National Brand Limited

I started working at Bakers NBL in 2014 as a labour broker worker.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

15 July 2024

My experience at Nature's Garden

I started to work at Nature's Garden in 2018. I was younger by that time and I was happy that I found a job.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

10 July 2024

My Community Struggle

My name is Phumla Mtshali from Thokoza and I'm focussing on the struggles of youth in my community.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

10 July 2024

My Community Struggle

I am from Katlehong Mandela, Zone 1. Our community has been facing struggles for such a long time.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

01 July 2024

How to expose nepotism at work

Irene Sibanyoni speaks to Siza Mlambo about how he fought a problem at work and won

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

27 June 2024

Elderly Dukathole residents are living in a nightmare!

The Simunye Workers Forum media activists visited the Dukathole Older People Service Centre in Gauteng on 18 May and found a horrifying situation where pensioners are experiencing high levels of oppression.

Category: FEATURES

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CWAO News Article

26 June 2024

The 2024 elections and the working class

Political parties never deliver what they promise

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

26 June 2024

The 2024 elections and the working class

Many were unable to cast their votes

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

23 June 2024

How I was treated at work after an injury

Simunye Workers' Forum media activist Malatji Thuli shares her story

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

22 June 2024

Migrant workers used as slaves

The bosses are exploiting both legal and so-called illegal migrants on a daily basis all over the country.

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

18 June 2024

The 2024 elections and the working class

Democracy has not changed our lives

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

18 June 2024

The 2024 elections and the working class

We practiced our democratic right to vote

Category: NEWS

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CWAO News Article

14 June 2024

A win at the CCMA for the ZGG Farm dismissed workers!

CWAO Legal Organiser Joshua Hlongwe reports that on 18 June 2024, the seven workers who were fired from ZGG Farm and Zanthe Flora in Gauteng were reinstated.

Category: NEWS

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