CWU making progress in persuading SABC to hear their demands The union will be meeting Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni Abrams this afternoon. FILE: The SABC headquarters in Auckland Park. Picture: SABC.
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JOHANNESBURG - The Communication Workers Union (CWU) on Saturday said it was making progress in persuading the The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to hear their demands.
Members affiliated to the union have been protesting, demanding that government abandon the turnaround strategy for the public broadcaster.
They also want retrenchments to stop and for the board to be dissolved.
The union will be meeting Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni Abrams on Saturday afternoon.
Union threatens blackout of SABC broadcasts today amid possible retrenchments Ernest Mabuza > By Ernest Mabuza - 22 January 2021 - 10:03 The Communication Workers Union says its members will down tools at the SABC between 11am and 2pm on Friday to halt the planned retrenchments at the pubic broadcaster. Image: KABELO MOKOENA / SOWETAN
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has threatened a blackout of all broadcast services when its members down tools at the SABC from 11am to 2pm on Friday.
And while Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) president Hannes du Buisson said there was a plan for downing of tools, he said “this might change”.
The CCMA budget is being massively slashed.
It has therefore stopped using its 565 part-time commissioners, leaving the caseload entirely to the 173 full-time commissioners.
Unions have warned that this will hurt workers who will now have to wait longer for cases to resolve or be pushed into settling quickly for less.
Workers are going to suffer the most from the overwhelming caseloads at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) over the next few years, especially now that part-time commissioners are no longer resolving disputes.
“When a worker is up against an employer representative, and you have a commissioner who tries to settle the matter as quickly as possible, in general the worker is going to be settling lower than what they should be settling for,” said Lynford Dor, spokesperson of The Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO). He said the CWAO has seen some cases in the past where workers felt pressured during the conciliation process to settle th
Khulekani Magubane Share The SABC describes the current financial crisis as the most critical for the future and sustainability of this 84-year-old institution .
The South African Broadcasting Corporation said the Labour Court s latest decision reaffirms the fairness of their turnaround consultation with labour.
The Labour Court dismissed the Broadcast, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union application for leave to appeal on the SABC’s section 189 process.
Unions have marched to the Union Buildings to demand government intervention as they hint at downing tools.
The Labour Court s dismissal of the Broadcast, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union application for leave to appeal on Friday is set to worsen the rift between the public service broadcaster’s management and its employees.
Hand chopped off on duty! Sandiso Phaliso This man lost his hand while working at Truda Foods in Komani. .
HIS entire hand was chopped off by a maize mixer machine while on duty at Truda Foods in Komani, Eastern Cape on Tuesday, 19 January.
Now the 28-year-old man faces an uncertain future.
But Truda Foods COO Steve Edwards blamed negligence for the man’s injury.
He said the man bypassed all safety protocol and measures by putting his hand in the part of the machine he wasn’t required to and instructed never to.
“The machine in question has two power override switches which were both functioning properly. They were ignored and overridden,” he said.