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Africa labour news
RSS FeedEgypt: Minimum wage not enough
2010-02-05, Issue 468
A stalemate between labour unions and business associations is preventing Egyptian authorities from setting a minimum wage that could improve the lot of millions of citizens living in poverty....
Liberia: Tell Firestone to play fair!
2010-01-29, Issue 467
As sports fans gear up for the NFL Super Bowl next week, the Halftime show sponsor, Bridgestone/Firestone, continues to exploit workers on its rubber plantation in Liberia. The majority of workers who labor as “rubber tappers” must carry two heavy bu...
Zambia: Lumwana workers win pay rise
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Lumwana Mining Company has signed the first collective agreement with Mine Workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) and National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) and awarded a 21 per cent salary increase to its unionised employees across the grades....
Zimbabwe: Teachers threaten strike over pay
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Teachers have threatened to go on strike if their salaries are not raised to US$600 per month from the current US$150. The President of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Takavafira Zhou said their members would not turn up for work ne...
Algeria: Striking employees injured during a clash with police
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Several heavy goods vehicle workers have been injured during a clash with riot police in the capital Algiers while holding a protest to demand better wages and benefits...
Algeria: Government, unions resolve public-sector wage dispute
2009-12-10, Issue 461
Civil servants will receive a long-awaited pay rise and back wages dating from January 2008, the Algerian government announced after talks with labour leaders....
Africa labour news roundup
2009-11-27, Issue 459
In this week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3], South African domestic workers get wage increase, Mozambican unions decry paltry fine for workers’ deaths, and Zimbabwe’s unions demand parliamentary inquiry into worker shootings. This bulletin is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
Sierra Leone: Workers' party launched
2009-11-20, Issue 458
The African Socialist International, in unity with other organizations of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, proudly announces the launch of an international workers party that will begin contesting for state power...
Africa labour news roundup
2009-11-20, Issue 458
In this week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3], Botswana's Debswana dispute goes to mediation, Swaziland Democracy NOW! Campaign to be launched, and Togo hosts conference of precarious work. This bulletin is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
Zimbabwe: ZCTU leaders acquitted & set free
2009-11-13, Issue 457
The President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Lovemore Matombo, and four other unionists were set free on Thursday after a Victoria Falls magistrate threw out charges against them. The 5 were arrested on Sunday for holding consultati...
Africa labour news roundup, 3 November 2009
2009-11-06, Issue 456
In this week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3] In this week’s labour news roundup, tens of thousands of Nigerian citizens protest over the government’s plan to deregulate the downstream oil sector, five Zimbabwean farm workers have been shot and injured with rubber bullets on a farm in the Chinhoyi area, and a South African mineworker is killed. This bulletin is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
Morocco: Fresh delays slow labour talks
2009-10-30, Issue 455
A recent round of talks has failed to achieve agreement between Morocco's unions and the government on several of organised labour's key demands. Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi began his annual "Social Dialogue" with leading Moroccan unions o...
Africa: Africa labour news roundup, 20 October 2009
2009-10-23, Issue 454
In this week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3] The Kennedy Thirteen, members of the embattled shackdwellers’ movememt Abahlali baseMjondolo are arraigned in court, miners stage a sit-in at a Mpumalanga mine, and Tanzanian workers push for salary review implementation. This bulletin is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
Africa: Africa labour news roundup, 7 October 2009
2009-10-09, Issue 451
This week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3] includes a report of Zimbabwe's police forcing striking workers back to work, and protest by South Africa's COSATU against labour brokers. Elsewhere, collective bargaining agreements become more popular as labour cases stack up in Kenya's courts, and Nigeria’s cement workers cry out over inhuman treatment. This bulletin is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
Tunisia: Teachers' strike shows solidarity with Gafsa protesters
2009-10-09, Issue 451
Elementary school teachers in Tunisia organised a one-day strike on Monday (October 5th) to show solidarity with the dozens of trade union activists and educators imprisoned for their involvement in protests in Gafsa last June. Four of the 34 people ...
Global: New developments at ICLR
2009-09-17, Issue 448
ICLR was founded in 2002 with the mission of supporting workers? and trade union rights internationally. Our resolution was to develop a network of lawyers who could provide quickly respond to the needs of labor movements, no matter where. Today, the...
Global: Freedom at Work Toolkit launched
2009-09-17, Issue 448
The ILRF has created the Freedom at Work Toolkit to understanding one of the human rights most widely violated in the workplace: the right to associate freely around the world. Only when this right is in place can we say workers enjoy freedom at work...
South Africa: Municipal workers end strike after pay deal
2009-07-31, Issue 444
South Africa's council workers' union said on Friday it had won a pay increase almost twice the rate of inflation, ending a five-day strike that challenged President Jacob Zuma's economic policies. "The wage agreement has now been signed and this eff...
Namibia: Court case highlights workers rights
2009-07-09, Issue 441
In a landmark case in Namibia, 22 hotel workers are taking their employer and a doctor to court for allegedly testing them for HIV without their informed consent. In February 2000, the owner of Oshakati Country Lodge in northern Namibia hired a docto...
South Africa: Strike action: Pecking order prevails
2009-07-09, Issue 441
There are a few high profile labour disputes currently taking place in South Africa. The public have entered the fray, influencing the labour debates by engaging with them via newspapers and talk radio programmes. At the same time, public sentiment i...
Zimbabwe: ZCTU on privatisation
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
2009-06-12, Issue 437
It seems government will go ahead with its controversial plans of privatization without employing a holistic, inclusive and participatory approach. The ZCTU believes there is need for genuine social dialogue whereby all stakeholders are consulted bef...
Burkina Faso: PM urges striking teachers to resume classes
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Burkina Faso's Prime Minister, Tertius Zongo, has urged striking national union of teachers and researchers (SYNADEC) to end their two two-month old strike saying government is prepared to dialogue with them. “Government remains sensitive to the mate...
Africa: Africa labour news roundup
Africa Labour News
2009-06-05, Issue 436
This week’s labour news from the African continent and beyond [mp3] includes the growing tension between South Africa’s unions and the new Zuma-led administration, and the Zimbabwean labour backlash against the recent visit by an ILO delegation to the country. Also in focus is a campaign by Ghana’s gender activists for maternity protection, labour unrest in Nigeria, as well as news from beyond the continent. This series of weekly bulletins is part of a partnership between Worker’s World Media Productions and Pambazuka News that seeks to highlight labour issues affecting Africa’s workers.
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