“At a recent national executive committee (NEC) meeting, union leaders reportedly engaged in a heated debate on the issue. Fawu has been at odds with the federation since the expulsion of the National Union of Mineworkers and...
Read MoreChauke v Fawu (Food And Allied Workers’ Union) (C377/2012) [2015] ZALCCT 44 (28 May 2015) per Rabkin-Naicker J. Exercising the powers granted by s 158(1)(e)(i) of the LRA, the Labour Court set aside the expulsion of 10...
Read MoreLawyers and other businesses charge for representing clients but trade unions may not do so; they are not allowed to conduct any ‘business for gain’. But trade unions may ‘promise’ to represent their members in labour...
Read MoreIn Ngcobo NO v Fawu [2012] 10 BLLR 1035 (HCKZN) Justice Swain ordered FAWU to pay damages of R214,464 plus interest thereon at the rate of 15.5% pa from 28 August 2004 and costs to two former members of the trade union. The...
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