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Unions have said the trend of making workers casual and the use of brokers to source labours on a three-month contract basis was rife in the logistics sector. Photo: grindrod.com

Grindrod Logistics workers strike over retrenchments

Unions say the company is keeping its workforce as casual labour to grow profits, in line with a trend in the transport sector

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read
March past: A Cosatu demonstration in Johannesburg last year. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Government of national unity: Political shift tests Cosatu’s influence

The labour movement helped end apartheid and usher in Mandela’s coalition government. Its currently diminished position is cause for anxiety as the ANC forges new political alliances

  • Eyaaz
8 min read