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Workers Show Solidarity to Demand Better Wages |
 Thousands of public service workers in Cape Town responded to the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) call for a national strike on Tuesday, 10 August, by marching to parliament where they handed over a list of demands.
Workers carried placards with slogans such as “Down with poverty wages”, “Baloyi we are not your Toyi”, “NO to 6.5%” and “Ban labour brokers”.
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Public Sector Workers Embark on Indefinite Strike |
 On Wednesday, 18 August 2010, the public sector unions will embark on an indefinite strike following the rejection of the wage offer made by government. One week ago trade unions in every province marched to raise awareness around their demands and thousands came in support. At the time they were optimistic about negotiations and reaching a compromise with government.
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Editorial: Eskom - No Power to the People |
The 25–26% increase in electricity prices over the next three years is a bitterblow for South Africa’s poor and working people, who are already struggling to cope with the million jobs lost under the recession.
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Economic crisis - Fiscal crisis or a crisis of distribution? |
Squeeze the profits not the wages
By Özlem Onaran
We are in a new episode of the global crisis: the struggle to distribute the costs of the crisis. This crisis has been an outcome of increased exploitation and inequality, since the post-1980s across the globe. Neoliberalism tried to solve the crisis of the golden age of capitalism via a major attack on workers. The outcome was a dramatic decline in worker’s bargaining power and labor’s share in income across the globe in the post-1980s.
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Iceland volcano: Kenya's farmers losing $1.3m a day in flights chaos |
By Nick Wadhams in Nairobi, guardian.co.uk, 18 April 2010
Farmers in Kenya are dumping tonnes of vegetables and flowers destined for the UK, four days after the volcanic ash cloud over Europe grounded cargo shipments from Africa.
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