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Conservatism’s grip on a fragile democracy — the social gap between leaders and the working class
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South Africa Cosatu welcomes R229bn European Union’s Global Gateway Investment Package for SA [Business Report] 13-10-2025
South Africa Conservatism’s grip on a fragile democracy — the social gap between leaders and the working class [Daily Maverick] 13-10-2025
South Africa 'Designed to weaken unions, fragment worker power' [The Daily News] 12-10-2025
South Africa NUM declares strike at Pharaoh Cement after wage negotiations deadlock [NUM] 09-10-2025
South Africa Workers take to the streets on World Day for Decent Work [GroundUp] 07-10-2025
South Africa International Day of Decent Work is a rallying point for the trade union movement - Cosatu [Business Report] 06-10-2025
South Africa SAFTU rejects the GAIN Strategy - ‘GEAR 4’ - as recycled neoliberal poison [SAFTU] 05-10-2025
South Africa Government must act to stop job losses and deindustrialisation – Numsa [Moneyweb] 03-10-2025
Namibia / South Africa The class war, Trump's tariff & the working class in Namibia & South Africa [International] 01-10-2025
South Africa SAFTU rejects Eskom breakup: backdoor privatisation, secret deals, and betrayal of the poor [SAFTU] 01-10-2025
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This month in labour history
23-10-1913 With 5,000 Indian workers on strike in North Natal, Gandhi publicly declares his intention to pull strikers out of the mines and seek a mass arrest, if necessary by illegally crossing the Transvaal border. [more]
25-10-1913 Gandhi meets with coal mine owners and other employers of Indian workers at the Durban Chamber of Commerce and explains the strike is the result of the government’s refusal to abolish the £ 3 tax. [more]
30-10-1978 A strike at Eveready, a British manufacturer of automotive batteries, becomes the first legal strike in 20 years. Several workers are made redundant when they refuse to return to work. [more]