Solidarity offers its members protection in the workplace. However, the trade union also is a larger movement which fights for the rights of its members and their communities. Our message is one of protection for today and hope for tomorrow!

Solidarity committed to huge community safety programme    During talks with President Jacob Zuma today, the trade union Solidarity committed itself to getting involved in a huge community safety programme. In a memorandum discussed with the president, Solidarity undertook to encourage the 136 000 people who participated in the trade union’s campaign of anti-crime letters to become actively involved in community safety programmes. Solidarity also undertook to actively mobilise all its structures and their communities in community safety projects.  Well-known Western Cape victims of crime to help hand over 107 000 letters to Zuma    The grandfather of the murdered Baby Jordan, Vernon Nortan, the mother of the murdered Nadine Jantjies, Francina Jantjies, and Megan Kaimowitz who lost a daughter due to crime, will today help deliver 107 000 anti-crime letters to Parliament. Solidarity recently launched a campaign in which ordinary South Africans were asked to send messages to the president in which they ask for the fight against crime combating to be the number one priority in South Africa.  The search is on for Solidarity’s Member of the Year 2010!    You or someone you know may be a true ambassador of Solidarity in the workplace. Help us to find Solidarity’s Member of the Year for 2010 – big prizes are up for grabs! In the following edition of the Solidarity Magazine we will publish the names of ten nominees from which the first finalist will be chosen. Two more finalists will be chosen in the two subsequent editions of the magazine. An overall winner will be announced in the magazine’s last edition for the year.  Solidarity’s labour court division sets new legal precedent    Solidarity’s Legal Services department once again reached new heights in a labour court case involving two Solidarity members who were laid off and did not receive their severance packages and other bonuses to which they were entitled contractually. Solidarity sued the Albert Luthuli Municipality in Mpumalanga, where both members had worked as municipal managers.  Zuma to receive 107 000 crime letters at Tuynhuys    The trade union Solidarity today announced that a total of 107 000 anti-crime letters were flown to Cape Town today. President Jacob Zuma will take delivery of the letters tomorrow (9 March 2010) at Tuynhuys in Cape Town. Solidarity recently launched a campaign in which ordinary South Africans were asked to send messages to the president in which they ask for crime combating to be the number one priority in South Africa.

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