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Campaign
10 December 2024
What's wrong with the new Labour Relations Amendment Bill
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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
CWAO Radio
25 November 2024
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: End of Mr Sweet strike
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: WEEKLY UPDATE
CWAO Radio
22 November 2024
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Labour Rights Week
A five-day Labour Rights workshop for activists on the frontline of defending workers was hosted in Joburg.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
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: FEATURES
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
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
05 November 2024
Premier FMCG strike ends in pay deal for Mister Sweet workers
The protracted strike at Premier FMCG's Mister Sweet factory in South Africa has finally ended with a pay deal spread over three years.
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
04 November 2024
Mister Sweet's three-months long strike ends sweetly for workers with above-inflation agreement
The 11-week long strike by workers over wage increments at Mister Sweet has ended.
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
03 November 2024
The 11-week Mister Sweet strike is over
Striking workers voted on Friday to settle
Category: DISPUTES
Media Coverage
30 October 2024
Mister Sweet workers shut down labour department
They claim that an inspector left a Mister Sweet factory with 'a lot of packets of sweets'
Category: DISPUTES
CWAO Radio
25 October 2024
Weekly Update: Mr Sweet Protest - Two months into strike
This week marks the 9th week since the start of Mister Sweet strike.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
Press Release
25 October 2024
Update on the Mister Sweet strike following 24 October 2024 negotiations
The workers at Mister Sweet in Wadeville, Gauteng have vowed to continue their strike, now in its 10th week.
Category: DISPUTES
The New Worker
24 October 2024
Enough is enough to crime in Daveyton Mayfield!
The Ward 96 community of Ekurhuleni celebrated a meeting on Saturday 12 October 2024 in Mayfield Park
Category: NEWS
Other
23 October 2024
FGTB Chimie Expresses Solidarity with the striking Mister Sweet Workers
"We support the workers demands for a living wage and a significant wage increase"
Category: DISPUTES
Multimedia
18 October 2024
A song for the courageous Mister Sweet strikers
by comrade Suliman Rajah
Category: DISPUTES
CWAO Radio
16 October 2024
Weekly Update: Mr Sweet Protest
In this episode we highlight one of the protesting workers experience with Mr Sweet.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
CWAO Radio
11 October 2024
Weekly Update: Bosses at ZGG
ZGG foreign national workers barred from work
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
Media Coverage
27 September 2024
Mr Sweet worker loses finger on duty
Premier insists that casual workers currently running production at the Mr Sweet Factory are qualified
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
26 September 2024
25 social movements slam Mister Sweet - Mister Sweet threatens workers
Premier Group CEO pays himself nearly R19 million a year, 185 times more than the Mister Sweet workers are paid
Category: DISPUTES
CWAO Radio
26 September 2024
Weekly Update: Mr Sweet Protest - Injured Workers
The SWF has been informed that several casual workers have been seriously injured over the past week in the Mister Sweet factory.