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ID | Start Date | End Date | Place | Union/Workers | Employer | Type of strike | Number of striking workers | Reason | Details |
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1 | 06/01/2023 | 07/02/2023 | Gqeberha, Eastern Cape | Workers | Libhongolethu IPTS bus service/Nelson Mandela Bay municipality | Wildcat | Bonuses unpaid | Workers went on strike after their bonuses were not paid | |
2 | 31/01/2023 | Emfuleni, Gauteng | Samwu | Emfuleni Local Municipality | Wildcat | Salary issues | Workers went on strike against irregular salary payments, unpaid January salaries and deteriorating service delivery | ||
3 | 01/02/2023 | Ekurhuleni, Gauteng | Private Sector Workers Union | Ngodvongodvo Security and Zabalaza Security (City of Ekurhuleni) | Wildcat | Unpaid security | The city failed to pay the security companies and 1000 workers went unpaid as a result in January. The workers went on strike at five sites that they guard for the municipality. The city said it had paid the security companies. | ||
4 | 02/02/2023 | Thembelihle municipality (Hopetown, Orania and Strydenburg), Northern Cape | Samwu | Thembelihle local municipality | Wildcat | Unpaid wages | Workers went on strike against unpaid wages, get more info from PS 071 889 2023 Lawrence Fennie | ||
5 | 07/02/2023 | Stellenbosch, Western Cape | Solidarity | Distell | Wildcat | Union recognition | 50 workers went on strike for two days demanding recognition of their union, Solidarity | ||
6 | 14/02/2023 | Sandton, Gauteng | Satawu, Numsa and Kungwini Amalgamated Workers Union (Kawu) | iMvula Group | Protected | Unpaid medical | Company said it was not paid, didn't pay workers medical aids, workers couldn't access health services and downed tools | ||
7 | 22/02/2023 | Cape Town, Western Cape | Saftu unions | Parliament | Protected | Budget protest | Protest during budget speech | ||
8 | 01/03/2023 | Stellenbosch, Western Cape | Transport Freight and General Workers Union (TFGWU) | Trip Trans Trucking Company | Protected | Union subs | Workers went on strike against union subs deductions that were never paid over to the union, which is not recognised, and cameras in the truck surveilling them, being registered as BEE with the company somehow and not paid and no payment for injury on duty | ||
9 | 03/03/2023 | Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape | Workers | Whispers Security Company | Wildcat | Unpaid bonuses | Security guards held a three hour strike, barricading health and education department workers inside after hearing that the department of health had not paid their company and so they would not get bonuses. Police removed the strikers. | ||
10 | 06/03/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Samwu | Rea Vaya Bus Services | Wildcat | Unpaid drivers | All buses were blocked from leaving the terminus in a wildcat strike after drivers were not paid by Piotrans, who is contracted by Rea Vaya to manage the bus services | ||
11 | 06/03/2023 | 16/03/2023 | Nationwide | Nehawu | DPSA | Protected | Wage increase | The strike was for a 10% increase in the 2022/23 wage talks, R2500 monthly housing allowance and bursary scheme for employees' children. The union settled after 10 days on an agreement to include the 2022/23 wage dispute in the 2023/24 negotiations and to conclude a minimum service level agreement within 6 months. | |
12 | 09/03/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Nupsaw | Gauteng department of health | Protected | EPWP absorption | Union members marched handed over a memorandum of demands, received by the Gauteng MEC for Finance Jacob Mamabolo, demanding absorption of 4000 EPWP workers | ||
13 | 10/03/2023 | Villiersdorp, Western Cape | Bawsi Agricultural Workers Union of SA (Bawusa) | High Noon Farm | Wildcat | Pay increase, abuse | Farmworkers downed tools against unilateral implementation of 5% increase when they had demanded 8% and against the farmer's physical abuse of workers, lack of transport to and from the farm, and employer reducing GP visits benefit to 2 visits per year. 70 workers went on strike | ||
14 | 14/03/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Nupsaw | Gauteng department of health | Wildcat | Contract termination | 4000 EPWP workers had a night vigil outside the offices of the Gauteng Department of Health against contract termination and for absorption. The workers then occupied the office of the Premier and continued protesting the next day. | ||
15 | 20/03/2023 | Nationwide | Saftu | Presidency | Protected | National shutdown | National shutdown | ||
16 | 21/03/2023 | Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal | Samwu | uThukela district municipality | Wildcat | Wage deduction | Workers went on strike, barricading the entrance to the municipality, in protest against wages having been deducted for a wildcat strike over Xmas (2022), and demanding that EPWP workers be hired permanently | ||
17 | 23/03/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Samwu | Rea Vaya Bus Services | Wildcat | Bus service | Bus service was suspended after workers went on strike again | ||
18 | 23/03/2023 | 24/03/2023 | Rustenburg, North West | Samwu | Rustenburg municipality | Wildcat | Covid-19 allowances | Workers went on strike, demanding their Covid-19 danger allowances which they had been promised since 2021. Workers also demanded proper grading. Workers continued the protest at DP Paul Mashatile's visit demanding that he solve their grievances | |
19 | 24/03/2023 | Cape Town | Saccawu | Makro | Protected | Makro dispute | 100 striking members of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) marched to Parliament to hand over a memorandum to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition calling on it to intervene in a dispute with Makro. This is the start of their 10 day strike. | ||
20 | 27/03/2023 | Cape Town | SA Horseracing and Allied Workers Union and New Independent Militant Workers Union | Global Roofing and Builder's Hardware | Wildcat | Union recognition | 40 workers to down tools after being suspended for trying to get their unions recognised and negotiate a pay increase. Contact: A Agulhas | ||
21 | 22/03/2023 | 05/04/2023 | Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal | Samwu | uThukela district municipality | Wildcat | EPWP issues | Samwu members went on strike after EPWP members were not paid, workplaces were found to be unsafe, employees who were injured on duty had their pay stopped, and employees were not paid outstanding amounts of money from when they went on strike last year. The strike was suspended after two weeks when the employer agreed to further consultations. | |
22 | 30/03/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Nupsaw | Gauteng department of health | Wildcat | EPWP firings | EPWP workers picket in protest against the Health MEC firing over 4000 EPWP workers. The workers then occupied the building. | ||
23 | 05/04/2023 | Present | Gqeberha, Eastern Cape | Numsa | Tenneco | Protected | Pay cut | Workers went on strike against a proposed 42% pay cut at the catalytic converter manufacturer, who introduced the proposed pay cut during bargaining, seeking to reduce the hourly rate from R114.67 to R67 even though other similar companies pay at least R87. | |
24 | 18/04/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Nupsaw | Gauteng department of health | Wildcat | EPWP firings | EPWP workers picket in protest against the Health MEC firing over 4000 EPWP workers on 31 March. The contracts were later extended. | ||
25 | 26/04/2023 | Makhanda, Eastern Cape | Samwu | Makana municipality | Wildcat | Overtime protest | Workers in the water department held a go slow and decided to open the water for the town several hours late in a protest against unpaid overtime | ||
26 | 30/04/2023 | N3 highway between Joburg and Durban, and highway near Kimberley | All Truck Drivers Forum and Allied South Africa - ATDF ASA | National government | Wildcat | Truck driver safety | Strike was for improved safety for truck drivers and for government to do away with labour brokers - the union said it was disappointed that not many truckers had turned out for the strike though - also demanded an end to "foreign" drivers | ||
27 | 05/05/2023 | Phalaborwa, Limpopo | NUM | Phalaborwa Foskor Mine | Protected | Youth employment | Strike was for increased youth employment, against alleged management "conniving with other unions to destroy the existence of the union", for the union to be part of decisions around procurement, and for an employment equity and skills development structure to be set up; for workers pay not to be deducted when communities protest against the mine; for insourcing of security guards | ||
28 | 09/05/2023 | Gqeberha, Eastern Cape | Numsa | Scaw Metal | Protected | Management issues | 300 workers dismissed by lily white management in 4 years; workers banned from speaking to each other in mother tongues; Black workers are beaten and sexually assaulted by white managers; IDC must stop investing at SCAW until union bashing has been stopped; protest against the persistent union bashing from the Barnes Group led by Doron Barnes at SCAW metals;The company is led by conservative white males, including Barnes and Riaan Tromp, who is clearly hired as a specialist to dismiss workers and shop stewards and to realize this he imposes charges that are formulated such that no worker can be spared. All workers and shop stewards are victims of one single creative charge that is called gross misconduct. | ||
29 | 11/05/2023 | Johannesburg, Gauteng | Samwu | ANC and City of Johannesburg | Protected | Municipal issues | About 7000 SAMWU members marched on the city, Premier's office and Luthuli House against the failure of the government to run municipalities properly. They are calling for Reinstatement of the 130 CoJ dismissed employees, An end to outsourcing of municipal services, Timeous payment is salaries, Review of the municipal funding model, An end to victimisation of workers |
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