Workers still shackled with the chains of unemployment and inequality 31 years into democracy!! The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) together with the country’s working class commemorates Freedom Day. It was on this day 31 years ago that South Africans from all walks of life participatedContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) has welcomed the temporary solution to the contractual impasse between Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) staff and the Department of Health in Gauteng. NUPSAW has taken note of the 12-month contract extension of EPWP workers within the department after aContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers will be holding a Night-Virgil outside the offices of the Department of Health in Gauteng on Wednesday, 16 March 2022, to fight back against a violent onslaught on workers by the government and the captured judiciary. The arrogance and utter lackContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) will be holding its 7th National Congress this weekend in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The two-day elective congress will commence with an open session on Saturday, 26 February 2022 and conclude with a closed session where the new leadership of the organisationContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) will be joining the South African Federation of Trade Unions’ (SAFTU) protest ahead of the country’s national budget speech on Wednesday, 23 February 2022. NUPSAW members will be marching side-to-side with other SAFTU affiliates today in Cape Town, where FinanceContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) in Limpopo will be laying a criminal complaint against Department of Health officials implicated in the PPE’ corruption in the province. The opening of a case will be preceded by a march to various institutions, including the provincial health departmentContinue Reading
Security officers and cleaners affiliated to the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) employed by private companies within Gauteng Department of Health facilities will embark on a giant march on Wednesday, 02 February 2022. The intention of the mass demonstration is to enforce the insourcing of securityContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers is incensed by the NPA’s intimidation tactics carried out against workers. Instead of addressing real issues plaguing the organisation, the National Prosecuting Authority has embarked on a witch-hunt in a bid to silence our members. On 21 December 2021 our memberContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers is utterly dismayed by the conduct of the acting CEO of the Government Pension Administration Agency (GPAA), which borders on abuse of power. We have learnt with shock that our members employed in the pension administration agency are being bullied, intimidatedContinue Reading
The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) welcomes the judgement of the Grahamstown High Court, which dismissed an appeal application by the National Prosecuting Authority with costs. After losing the initial application back in August this year, which was meant to silence our members from exposing theContinue Reading
SANParks has embarked on the process of commercialising Skukuza Safari Lodge and Nombolo Mdluli Conference Centre, which would see workers transferred to a private company and subsequently deprived of fundamental employment rights enjoyed by those that are insourced. We wrote to SANParks earlier this year to register our most substantialContinue Reading