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UCT academic staff set to go on strike

About 700 members of the Academics’ Union (AU) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are set to embark on an unprecedented wage strike next week. Academic staff is unhappy over a 3% pay increase offered by management. It’s expected that the strike will negatively affect registration, the release of supplementary examination results as well as teaching at the institution. Lead Negotiator of AU, Associate Professor Kelley Moult, says they […]

today22 January 2023

International

UN warns of social unrest after ‘striking’ drop in global wages

INTERNATIONAL Global wages fell in 2022 for the first time since the global financial crisis due to soaring living costs, threatening to worsen inequality and drive social unrest, the United Nations labour agency has warned. Monthly wages dropped 0.9 percent in real terms in the first half of 2022 – the first negative wage growth since 2008, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in its latest global wage report released […]

today1 December 2022

Local

Cosatu to appeal Labour Court ruling over public sector wage increase

Cosatu says it will appeal the ruling by the Labour Appeal Court over the public sector wage increase. Unions applied to the court seeking an enforcement order of Clause 3.3 of the 2018 Wage Agreement. The court however found that the clause is unlawful and the government does not have to hike public servants’ salaries this year. The government had said it did not have the funds to increase public […]

today16 December 2020

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