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Latest CWAO News
Campaign
19 March 2025
Contract Cleaning Hourly Minimum Wage 2025
Act against bosses who refuse to pay the minimum wage!
Category: MINIMUM WAGE
Campaign
17 March 2025
Wholesale & Retail Hourly Minimum Wage 2025
R28.79 per hour is a poverty wage!
Category: MINIMUM WAGE
Campaign
12 March 2025
The new national minimum wage is R28.79 per hour!
Demand the new national minimum wage if you are earning less!
Category: WORKERS' RIGHTS
The New Worker
10 March 2025
Newedge Technology workers enforce the national minimum wage
Workers at Newedge Technology in Sebenza, Edenvale won a victory recently through their organising and united efforts.
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
Media Coverage
27 February 2025
Women workers win major victory on minimum wage
Company not allowed to base workers' pay on targets, says CCMA
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
20 February 2025
CWAO welcomes Labour Court ruling against piece work payments
Employers must pay the Minimum Wage
Category: WORKERS' RIGHTS
Workers' Rights
16 February 2025
VICTORY FOR CWAO!!
Workers must get lawful wages - court
Category: NEWS
The New Worker
15 February 2025
A life in activism and the farm workers' struggle
Shopsteward and regional chairperson in the Namibia Farm Workers Union spoke to CWAO's Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima about his life in activism and the farm workers' struggle
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
Media Coverage
14 February 2025
More than half of 2024 strikes were unprotected
The number of strikes has been stable over the past few years
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
13 February 2025
Significant rise in wildcat strikes in South Africa
A new report on strike trends in 2024 has uncovered a significant rise in wildcat strikes in South Africa.
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
12 February 2025
Strikes increase from 2023 to 2024
There is a slight increase in strikes from 2023 and strikes recorded in 2024.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
11 February 2025
The CWAO has released its latest Strike Barometer
The latest Strike Barometer covers all strikes and workplace-related actions that took place between 1 January and 31 December 2024.
Category: DISPUTES
Campaign
10 February 2025
National Minimum Wage 2025 of R28.79 per hour is a poverty wage!
Organise and demand the new national minimum wage if you are earning less!
Category: MINIMUM WAGE
Campaign
03 February 2025
Free Sunday Mathematics classes for Grade 8
Don't miss this opportunity!
Category: EDUCATION
The New Worker
30 January 2025
Hard times in Ndarhala, Alfred Nzo municipality in the Eastern Cape
In Ndarhala, the roads are very bad.
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
Media Coverage
22 January 2025
Another strike at ZGG Farm!
Workers downed tools on 20 January 2025 after the boss did not pay them their December salaries
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
20 December 2024
Mister Sweet workers face disciplinary hearings for strike
Simunye Workers Forum says it will fight these proceedings at the CCMA
Category: DISPUTES
The New Worker
16 December 2024
M&N Waste forced to backpay workers more than R300 000 in underpaid National Minimum Wage payments!
Workers employed by plastic and box recycling company, M&N Waste of Boksburg, won a victory at the CCMA.
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
The New Worker
15 December 2024
CWAO will represent 176 PepsiCo workers against unfair deductions
In January 2024, PepsiCo deducted as much as half the salaries of many of the workers at their factory in Ceres in the rural Western Cape. They did this without consulting or even informing the workers.
CWAO assists 176 workers in referring the case to the CCMA.
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
Campaign
10 December 2024
What's wrong with the new Labour Relations Amendment Bill
Find out more here
Category: LEGISLATION
Campaign
06 December 2024
Skrap die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Arbeid
Weerstaan die aanvalle op werkers se regte!
Category: AMENDMENTS TO LABOUR ACT
Media Coverage
28 November 2024
The future of new trade unions
Denzil Taylor is joined by Edgar Mokgola from CWAO to discuss the new types of trade unions
Category: FEATURES
Press Release
27 November 2024
Workers Organise!
Free advice for workers - 29 November
Category: WORKER RIGHTS
Campaign
27 November 2024
Scrap the Labour Amendment Law!
Resist the attacks on workers' rights!
Category: AMENDMENTS TO LABOUR ACT
Media Coverage
13 November 2024
Labour Rights Week gets started!
A five-day Labour Rights workshop for activists on the frontline of defending workers is underway in Joburg.
Category: EDUCATION
The New Worker
11 November 2024
Why the Mister Sweet strike mattered
Workers at the Mister Sweet confectionery factory in Wadeville, Gauteng, began a strike on 19 August, which ended 11 weeks later. The company is owned by Premier FMCG, one of the oldest food and consumer packaged goods businesses in South Africa.
Category: WORKERS' STORIES
Media Coverage
07 November 2024
Injured Mister Sweet workers yet to be compensated
Casual worker claims he did not get any training before he got the job