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Cosatu and Sasbo plan to appeal against Thursday’s labour court judgment which interdicted their members from going ahead with planned protest action against banks on Friday. Stock photo.Image: 123rf.com/Brian Jackson
BANK STRIKE

Cosatu and Sasbo set to appeal interdict halting planned bank strike

Finance union Sasbo will appeal a judgment by the labour court which on Thursday interdicted the union from engaging in protest action on Friday against retrenchments in the banking sector. Judge Hilary Rabkin-Naicker ruled that Cosatu…

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Banking union Sasbo plans to strike against job losses in the banking sector. However, the industrial action might not go ahead as banks have applied to the labour court to stop the strike.Image: Gallo Images
BANK STRIKE

Major bank strike planned for Friday

Finance union Sasbo expects tens of thousands of its members to go on strike on Friday over planned retrenchments in the banking sector. But the union has to overcome the hurdle of an application by the banking industry for an interdict…

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WELL-RED Thousands of workers took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against state capture. In Durban they marched to the city hall, where a memorandum was handed to a representative of KZN premier Willies Mchunu. Image: Thuli Dlamini
ANC

Give Cyril a chance, says Cosatu

BY JEFF WICKS AND LWANDILE BHENGU Cosatu President S’dumo Dlamini has moved to bolster the labour federation’s stance in the tripartite alliance, saying it would assert itself by supporting Cyril Ramaphosa for the presidency of the party…

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Atul Gupta at his home in Saxonwold in Johannesburg.Picture: KEVIN SUTHERLAND
ANC

Cosatu strike should go to the Gupta compound: Mashaba

By Nomahlubi Jordaan Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba says Cosatu’s planned national strike on Wednesday should also go to the Gupta residence in Saxonwold. “Unfortunately‚ COSATU’s planned strike fails to take the protest to the…

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