Updates
CWAO Radio Updates bring weekly, relevant news to you as a worker – from rights to strikes, legislation to campaigns, and everything else affecting the working class.
CHEP workers are standing firm on their demands
Striking workers at CHEP commit to ongoing action after CCMA-facilitated mediation falters. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi Guest: Herold Monare
CHEP striking workers getting international solidarity support
CHEP seems to be wilting under Simunye pressure as they call in CCMA intervention. Meanwhile, UK CHEP workers, organised the Unite trade union, have given a commitment to organise solidarity support. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi Guest: Jack Ramaboa
CHEP strike enters its 8th day - as of 28 August 2025
Simunye Workers Forum pressurising Australian government to help CHEP workers Anchor: Tebadi Mmotla
Update: CHEP strike continues into its second week
CHEP workers remain committed to their strike, whilst their employer is keeping mum on their demands. Host: Muzi Mzoyi Guest: Akhona Qalangile
Update: CHEP strike continues into its second day
CHEP workers are still on strike fighting for permanent jobs and refusing to back down until management delivers. Guests: Akhona Qalangile & Godfred Mohloding
Update: CHEP workers go on strike
CHEP Employees are on strike following long negotiations that ended with disappointment. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi Guest: Akhona Qalangile
Scrap the Labour Law Amendments campaign goes national
Scrap the Labour Law Amendments Campaign is popularising the resistance against the amendments. It is now busy with local organising in communities and amongst their constituencies. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi Guests: John Apollis, Hannah Kayisa, Lebohang Phanyeko
Workers commemorate May Day with march on Labour department
Workers’ parliament commemorate Workers Day by launching their fight against labour law amendments in Johannesburg. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi | Guests: Busisiwe Masimini; Nontembeko Luzipho; Morongwa Chaba & Samnkelo Jamjam.
Workers Day Preview
On Workers Day the Gauteng workers parliament will kickstart their fight against Labour law amendments – their focus will be mainly on the Code of Good Practice on Dismissals.
Pay your sacked employee, CCMA orders management company
Woman worker wins case against employment benefits company, Salt EB, after she was unfairly dismissed.
Recycling company treating migrant workers like waste
Workers at East Rand recycling company M&N Waste are fighting back as their employer is breaking the law by refusing to pay them the National Minimum Wage of R28.79 per hour. Host: Muzi Mzoyi | Guests: Matsoanelo Matomotomo & Jordan Mondlane Produced by Charles Leonard; Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi
Resistance building against new anti-worker code of conduct
Nedlac has negotiated changes to the Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the National Minimum Wage Act – the first is a proposed new Code of Good Practice on Dismissals. Even the trade union federations in Nedlac have agreed to this draft code, which will make it…
Update Special: Uproar over Draft Code of Good Practice on Dismissal
Thirty workers and social rights organisations have filed a joint submission to the Department of Employment and Labour and the Parliamentary Committee on Employment and Labour calling for the new Draft Code of Good Practice on Dismissal to be scrapped. They are also demanding public hearings to be held with…
Arbitration for Mr Sweet workers
Last year Mr Sweet fired several workers who went on a protected strike. Fifty-seven of them approached the CCMA and last week they got a decision there that they were satisfied with. Host: Muzi Mzoyi Produced by Charles Leonard; Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi
Migrant workers say it is enough now
This week we look at the treatment of migrant workers in South Africa and what is being done to organise them. More info: www.cwao.org.za
Labour court tells bosses, ‘This isn’t piece work’
Five female workers take on their employer for paying them in terms of a piece work system instead of the national minimum wage. And win. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi
Buwa Basebetsi Updates: Mr Sweet Protest - Simunye Workers Forum reports
In this episode of Buwa Basebetsi Updates, Simunye Workers Forum worker activists speak to Mr Sweet protesting workers on the ground.
How government is trying to cut public service jobs
The government is trying to entice public servants over the age of 55 to take early retirement as part of its austerity measures. More details are expected in the National Budget speech. But at what cost?
Vegetable farm workers win at CCMA
ZGG farmworkers celebrate after winning yet another case at the CCMA against their employer in a series of battles since 2023. Anchor: Muzi Mzoyi Guests: Joshua Hlungwa; Phineas Ngobeni Credits: Produced and Engineered by Muzi Mzoyi; Edited by Charles Leonard Recorded in February 2025
Bosses going after their own foreign workers
Employers are using the lack of work permits to victimise their own foreign national workers who dare stand up for their rights. This is happening even though the Labour Relations Act also applies to migrants, even if they don’t have a valid work permit.