In our Monday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Friday, 6 November 2015. Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will not appeal its expulsion from Cosatu at the labour federation’s national congress later this month, the union said on Monday.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that the five-day strike involving more than 2,000 workers at organic banana producer Umbhaba Banana Estates Farms would continue indefinitely, the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) said on Friday.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that Parliament came to a standstill on Monday when various support workers downed tools.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the poor safety performance from AngloGold Ashanti’s South African mines weighed heavily on the company’s September quarter results.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the fight for members within the fold of labour federation Cosatu is intensifying, with a resolution to be discussed at its coming congress aimed at effectively eliminating smaller unions in the federation.   Source: Latest News

City Press reports that teachers’ union Sadtu has laid charges against one of its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) leaders who allegedly sold a job at her school for a R1,000-a-month bribe.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that the SA Defence Union (Sandu) says the possibility of a new VIP jet being purchased for President Jacob Zuma shows poor prioritization on the part of government.   Source: Latest News

Weekend Argus reports that in the Labour Court in Cape Town on Friday, Solidarity described that the new employment equity plan of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) as an “attempted nod” to a previous court order.   Source: Latest News

In BDLive’s Monday roundup of the political week ahead, a number of labour-related items are reported on.   Source: Latest News