Amendments to the Cosatu constitution have now been deferred to its central executive committee meeting.
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant accuses some of Cosatu’s leaders of supporting labour brokers.
SA’s working class not shy about advancing views on policy matters, says Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant.
Cosatu’s biggest affiliate, Nehawu, takes issue with President Jacob Zuma’s speech to the Midrand congress.
Economic Development Minister, Ebrahim Patel told Cosatu delegates that two million jobs have been created since the implementation of the New Growth Path.
Blade Nzimande says the SACP has extended its financial sector campaign to include finding funding for higher education.
S'dumo Dlamini wants the Cosatu congress to make an amendment that will undermine its affiliates' autonomy.
S’dumo Dlamini threatened to withdraw support for the ANC if government does not engage with the federation. (PICS)
The State and Allied Workers Union appears to have boycotted Cosatu’s national congress.
A task team probing a national minimum wage is aiming to implement it by April, but there is a concern that deadlines will not be met.
Cosatu says Numsa was unlikely to succeed in its appeal to be reinstated in the country’s biggest trade union federation.
The newly formed SA Liberated Public Sector Workers Union supports the #FeesMustFall student movement.
President of the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vusi Khumalo says business is concerned by student protests over fees.
The South African Communist Party has added its voice to a moratorium on fee increases for 2016.
Cosatu has come out in criticism of the ANC’s resolutions made at its recent national general council.
Salga has deinied that new wage packages for municipal managers and other senior managers will strain the fiscus.
Satawu has secured an improvement in the sectoral determination for its members in the private security industry.
The ruling party calls on Prasa’s board and minister of transport, Dipuo Peters to take swift action on allegations of irregularities.
About 50 000 jobs are set to be lost in the steel industry after unions failed to convince companies to halt retrenchments.
The difference in pay between women and men could be even greater, because the informal sector is difficult to measure.
The Democratic Alliance outlines five steps to remedy South Africa’s economic crisis and stop job losses.
About 2 000 delegates to Cosatu’s Gauteng congress call for government to increase its roll out of National Health Insurance pilot projects.
A Ceppwawu faction claims the Department of Labour instructed the registrar of labour to abandon plans to put the union under administration.
Ceppwawu has alleges Mildred Oliphant is guilty of political interference in the fight for the union to be put under administration.
SA’s Department of Labour threatens action against those who fail to fulfil their obligations to the Labour Court.