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Fin24 reports that the Competition Tribunal on Tuesday conditionally approved a SABMiller and Coca-Cola deal to combine their African soft drink operations into what would be the continent’s biggest Coke drinks bottler. Source: Latest News
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Negotiations to end nine week-long action at Glencore colliery deadlocked
SABC News reports that negotiations to end the nine week industrial action at Glencore’s Wonderfontein coal mine in Belfast have deadlocked. Source: Latest News
Sadtu protests over vacant KZN teaching posts
Daily News reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has embarked on indefinite pickets outside the KwaZulu-Natal education department’s district offices, demanding the urgent filling of teacher posts around the province. Source: Latest News
Solidarity institutes class action against GEPF over fund calculations
Fin24 reports that trade union Solidarity has served court papers on the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) for unlawfully amending the formula for calculating employees’ preservation fund payouts at the time of resignation. Source: Latest News
NUM wants a buyer for Exxaro’s Arnot colliery
Bloomberg reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) wants a buyer to step in at Exxaro Resource’s Arnot colliery to avert job cuts at the end of July. Source: Latest News
Protecting Amsa puts industry at risk, says Neasa
Business Report writes that Gerhard Papenfus, CE of the National Employers’ Association of SA (Neasa), has thrown down the gauntlet to government to review its decision to cushion ArcelorMittal SA (Amsa) against cheap Chinese steel imports through tariffs. Source: Latest News
WAU denies it was formed to destroy Amcu
ANA reports that the general secretary of the Workers Association Union (WAU), Elifas Ngoepe, insisted on Tuesday that the union was formed to advance the interests of the workers, not to dilute support for other unions. Source: Latest News
Samwu wants municipalities to stop using EPWP and CWP workers
TMG Digital reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has called on local government to stop using labour offered through the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) and Community Works Programme (CWP) to render services to communities. Source: Latest News
New initiatives may set a different tone at this year’s auto industry wage talks
Engineering News writes that this year will see organised labour and the automotive assembly and component manufacturing sectors return to the bargaining table to thrash out new wage accords. Source: Latest News
Massive squeeze at Port Elizabeth schools with new wave of teacher shortages
HeraldLive reports that a Port Elizabeth school was forced to cram 84 pupils into a single classroom on Tuesday as a new wave of teacher shortages hit the northern areas. Source: Latest News