NUMSA prepares for labor dispute in motor industry sector
Workers in the motor industry sector are demanding a 12% hike, along with a night-shift allowance for fuel station employees working on night shifts
Doctors in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals go on an indefinite strike
In less than a year since the introduction of the RTGS currency, the value of salaries of civil servants in Zimbabwe has dropped to less than 10% of what they were in USD
Trade union leaders’ remand extended by courts in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa and secretary-general Japhet Moyo continue to face death threats while being out on bail under police remand.
Sudanese security forces open fire on protesters
Four were killed and several were injured when Sudanese security forces shot at protesters in the city of Al-Abyad
Zimbabwean teachers begin strike demanding restoration of salary value
Despite repeated police harassment and physical attacks on the union’s president, members of ARTUZ will carry their struggle forward
Unions in Zimbabwe threaten mass action in the face of a deepening economic crisis
Since the introduction of salary payments in a quasi-currency pegged to USD in October last year, wages of the lowest paid civil servants have fallen from the equivalent of USD 475 to USD 47.
Sudanese Communist Party refuses to take part in transitional government, calls for agitations
The Sudanese Communist Party’s decision comes after a meeting between the leadership of the civilian forces and the military junta in which the latter went back on a number of commitments it had made earlier
Battling corporate concentration in agriculture
A recent two-day symposium examined key issues in Indian agriculture today, including increasing corporate control over different aspects of the sector, land grabs and the use of different trade agreements to capture and rig markets in the global south.