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Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Source: Latest News
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Zuma must practice ubuntu and release Marikana report now, says IFP
News24 reports that the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said on Tuesday that President Jacob Zuma has lost the spirit of ubuntu because of his delays in releasing the Marikana report. Source: Latest News
Civil engineering wage talks reach deadlock, but parties open to more discussions
Engineering News Online reports that the final round of the national wage negotiations for the civil engineering industry has reached a deadlock, the Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI) said on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
Telkom to cut 24% of workforce to catch up with Vodacom, MTN
Bloomberg News reports that telecoms company Telkom plans to eliminate at least 24% of its workforce as CEO Sipho Maseko seeks to make Africa’s dominant landline provider more competitive against the Vodacom and MTN groups. Source: Latest News
Gold mining wage talks to commence on 22 June
ANA reports that the Chamber of Mines said on Tuesday that the wage negotiations in the gold mining sector will start in two weeks on Monday, 22 June 2015. Source: Latest News
Strike by municipal workers looms
RDM News Wire reports that averting a national strike by municipal workers hangs in the balance after the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) threatened to down tools‚ a move that has been labelled “premature and careless” by the employer organisation the SA Local Government Association (Salga). Source: Latest News
Numsa's urgent application to get Cosatu congress to consider its expulsion dismissed
News24 reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) urgent application to be able to appeal its expulsion from Cosatu at the labour federation’s special national congress (SNC) to be held in July has been thrown out of the High Court in Johannesburg. Source: Latest News
Mid-morning roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 9 June 2015
In our Tuesday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Monday, 8 June 2015. Source: Latest News
NUM’s new chief faces tough tests
In its Tuesday editorial, Business Day writes about the implications of the ousting of long-time National Union of Mineworkers general secretary Frans Baleni and his replacement at last week’s elective congress by Free State provincial secretary David Sipunzi. Source: Latest News
Numsa case against Cosatu and Limusa delayed to allow filing of further documents
ANA reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) case against trade union federation Cosatu was delayed in the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday to allow time for further court documents to be filed. Source: Latest News