Cashiers� union decries stubborn employers

The Cashiers, Shop Assistants & Allied Workers Union (CASAWU) says it is encountering “resistance and denial” by most employers in the retail and wholesale sector, limiting its efforts to empower workers.

Yesterday, the national organising secretary of the union, Dimpho Nyambe, told journalists that the state of affairs was making it difficult for them to organise.

The union, established last year, is seeking to draw members from the retail, wholesale, motor trade and manufacturing industries, where previous surveys have indicated rampant labour discrepancies and low unionisation.

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Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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