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Strike threat at Galeshewe Day Hospital as staff protest shortages, unpaid overtime

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Latest QES confirms a deepening jobs bloodbath and manufacturing collapse [SAFTU] 12-12-2025


Strike threat at Galeshewe Day Hospital as staff protest shortages, unpaid overtime [DFA] 12-12-2025


SAFTU celebrates landmark victory of EPWP workers in Ethekwini [SAFTU] 11-12-2025


Numsa decries metal industry job shedding bloodbath [Daily Sun] 10-12-2025


SAFTU rejects the dishonest “Come Back Home” narrative on NUMSA and FAWU and reaffirms unity in action [SAFTU] 09-12-2025



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Naptosa warns matric exam leaks threaten system’s credibility 2025-12-13 [East Coast Radio]

Strike threat at Galeshewe Day Hospital as staff protest shortages, unpaid overtime 2025-12-12 [DFA]

sMedia Statement: International Anti-Corruption Day 2025-12-12 [FEDUSA]

Matric exam papers leak exposes ongoing security issues at DBE 2025-12-12 [Eyewitness News]

Minister Gwarube to address examination breach in Grade 12 NSC exams 2025-12-12 [The Mercury]

NUM rejects Eskom unbundling strategy 2025-12-12 [Politicsweb/NUM]

Latest QES confirms a deepening jobs bloodbath and manufacturing collapse 2025-12-12 [SAFTU]

COSATU shocked by SAFTU’s attempt to throttle unity talks 2025-12-11 [COSATU]

COSATU welcomes proposed increase in the National Minimum Wage 2025-12-11 [COSATU]

COSATU applauds the SIU’s UIF anti-corruption search and seizure operations 2025-12-11 [COSATU]

NUMSA demands state-lender intervention in steel crisis 2025-12-11 [IndustriALL]

SAFTU celebrates landmark victory of EPWP workers in Ethekwini 2025-12-11 [SAFTU]

New law will reveal South Africa’s huge pay gaps 2025-12-11 [GroundUp]

Botched permits spoil start to crayfish season 2025-12-11 [GroundUp]

IDC must urgently intervene at SA Steel Mills and AMSA - NUMSA 2025-12-11 [Politicsweb/NUMSA]

NUMSA pickets IDC over steel sector crisis 2025-12-11 [Sandton Chronicle]

COSATU voices concern over ANC-SACP tensions ahead of 2026 elections 2025-12-11 [SABC]

Political address by General Secretary of COSATU te DENOSA NEC 2025-12-10 [COSATU]

Gauteng NUMSA demands reinstatement of 165 workers and review of funding at IDC Protest 2025-12-10 [Eyewitness News]

Government compiling ‘hit list’ of companies that repeatedly break labour laws 2025-12-10 [BusinessTech]

Labour Court rules Covid-19 job cuts were fair 2025-12-10 [IOL]

Free State Safety concerns force shutdown of Petrusburg Labour Centre 2025-12-10 [SABC]

COSATU welcomes agreement to halt retrenchments between Eskom, Samancor Chrome and Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture 2025-12-10 [COSATU]

Talks between ANC and NEHAWU underway to rectify the nonpayment issue 2025-12-10 [SABC]

Saftu warns of banned pesticides flooding SA farms 2025-12-10 [SAFTU]

Numsa decries metal industry job shedding bloodbath 2025-12-10 [Daily Sun]

Labour urges for permanent solution to avert mass layoffs after Eskom-ferrochrome deal 2025-12-10 [Business Report]

Unhappy NUMSA workers demand alternative bidder takeover of SA Steel Mills 2025-12-10 [Eyewitness News]

Unpaid ANC workers get youth league, Nehawu backing at National General Council 2025-12-09 [IOL]

Workers in Crisis: NUMSA Demands IDC Intervention at SA Steel Mills and AMSA 2025-12-09 [Central News]

SAFTU rejects the dishonest “Come Back Home” narrative on NUMSA and FAWU and reaffirms unity in action 2025-12-09 [SAFTU]

‘Stop showing off your wealth,’ Ramaphosa tells ANC while party staff picket over pay outside 2025-12-09 [Daily Maverick]

Community fights to reopen primary school 2025-12-09 [GroundUp]

KwaZulu-Natal Sixteen Education staff face disciplinary over irregular tender 2025-12-09 [SABC]

Teachers' union SAOU calls for urgent steps to protect matric exam integrity, support pupils' welfare 2025-12-09 [DFA]

KwaZulu-Natal A R500 million raise, but a new shift in work for Durban’s city staff 2025-12-09 [Joburg(etc}]

NEHAWU leads Luthuli House staff protest over wages outside ANC NGC 2025-12-09 [Sunday World]

Workers demand overdue bonuses 2025-12-09 [Knysna-Plett Herald]

Numsa demands urgent electricity tariff reduction to save smelting jobs 2025-12-09 [Eyewitness News]

NUM urges ferrochrome industry to commit to three-month retrenchment moratorium 2025-12-09 [NUM]

COSATU presented its submission on the Special Appropriation Bill to Parliament 2025-12-09 [COSATU]

SAFTU in solidarity with NUMSA on tdefence of smelters, jobs and industrial sovereignty 2025-12-09 [SAFTU]

SAFTU condemns brutal killing of Msrius van der Merwe, witness of the Madlanga Commission 2025-12-09 [SAFTU]

Talks ongoing for Numsa, Fawu to rejoin Cosatu 2025-12-08 [The Sowetan]

Salary boost for eThekwini Municipality workers, City reaches agreement with SAMWU 2025-12-08 [The Mercury]

SAFTU salutes Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe on the anniversary of his birth 2025-12-08 [SAFTU]

Honouring Madiba and the Rivonia Generation and confronting the betrayal of our own mission 2025-12-08 [SAFTU]

Numsa to march to the Union Buildings amid closure of smelters 2025-12-07 [NewsNote]

Ramaphosa says both ANC and Cosatu need to ‘rebuild’ 2025-12-06 [The Citizen]

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This month in labour history

4-12-2007 The first ever nation-wide miner's strike. A one-day stoppage by the National Union of Mineworkers over working conditions and safety. [more]

4-12-1919 Called by the Cape Town Federation of Professions, workers refuse to touch food exports in protest against excessive price increases. [more]

17-12-1919 Cape Town's ICU and IWA join the inflation strike and receive support from white workers and the National Union of Railway and Port Employees. The police arrest the black strikers. [more]

19-12-1995 Two hour stoppage by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) against privatisation. [more]