South African defense equipment manufacturer: #union says government intentionally mismanaging public companies as excuse to privatize them

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/25/workers-picket-the-office-of-south-africas-largest-defense-industry/

#SouthAfrica #unions #privatization #neoliberalism #NUMSA #Denel #Centurion #CostOfLiving #DVS #corruption #SAA #Eskom #SOE #ANC #GNU #PravinGordhan #Capitalism #Exploitation #ClassWar

BREAKING: Workers at Gautrain to strike on Monday after wage negotiations deadlocked with Numsa.

•Workers demand 13% increase
•Company to contribute 60% on medical aid and 40% workers
•R2000 Housing allowance
•Payment for overtime work
•Bonuses for blue collar workers
•Numsa also wants the company to recognise shop stewards to represent workers in disciplinary hearings and grievances.

•The strike will start at 6AM, Numsa says #Gautrain services may be interrupted as a result. #GautrainStrike #Numsa #SouthAfrica #MastodonAfrica

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/15/socialism-is-not-just-a-possibility-it-is-the-only-possibility-left-leaders-gather-in-johannesburg/

“#Socialism is not just a possibility, it is the only possibility”: left leaders gather in #Johannesburg

“The world #capitalist system survives and thrives by exploiting nature, exploiting the #WorkingClass, the poor, the rural #farmers, and #Indigenous people. It extracts maximum value it does not pay for, from the working class and the poor.”

#SouthAfrica #DilemmasOfHumanityConference #IPA #NUMSA #AbahlaliBaseMjondolo #SRWP #DanielJadue #CarmenNavas #VijayPrashad

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/11/south-african-police-attack-and-arrest-striking-workers-at-ekapa-diamond-mines/

#SouthAfrica: #police attack and arrest #striking workers at #Ekapa diamond mine

Hundreds of #NUMSA members on #strike. Police arrested 43 workers after attacking #PicketLine with water cannons and tear gas

#strikes #union #AbuseOfPower #Capitalism #ClassWar

Thousands of Gautrain passengers could be stranded after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa warned that its members who work at ...

Thousands of Gautrain passengers could be stranded after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa warned that its members who work at the operating company could down tools amid a wage negotiation deadlock.
Numsa threatens strike after wage talks with Gautrain remain deadlocked