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On Thursday, 2 February 2006, the four unions at UKZN (COMSA, NEHAWU, NTESU, and UNSU) served notice to University Management that they would commence strike on Monday, 6 February 2006. [1] The immediate grievance was the sub-inflationary wage increases of the general staff while senior management was given bonuses. [ 1 ]
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
Although the number of strikes declined after March, 100 000 African and Indian workers were reported to have taken some form of industrial action by the end of 1973. [ 2 ] The 1973 Durban strikes were seen as a form of "mass civil disobedience" as it was illegal for black Africans, under the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 to ...
Protests in the Siyahlala shack settlement in Gugulethu, Cape Town, [87] the Zakheleni [88] and Puntan's Hill shack settlements in Durban, [89] as well as Marrianridge, also in Durban, [90] Oliphantshoek in the Northern Cape [91] and Port Elizabeth [92] in 2012; The 2012 Marikana miner strike [93]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Universities across the UK were hit by walkouts, with lectures and seminars cancelled, as 70,000 staff started an unprecedented period of strike action. Meanwhile, cities across the country saw ...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass-based popular political movement in southern Africa.It was influenced by the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World (adopting the IWW Preamble in 1925), as well as by Garveyism, Christianity, communism, and liberalism.
The strike impacted mining, construction, engineering and metallurgical businesses throughout the country, [5] with BMW's production in the country particularly impacted. [4] A representative from SEIFSA suggested that the strike cost businesses a total of 600 million South African rand, and resulted in 300 million rand of lost pay for workers. [5]