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 membership – the simplest way to safeguard your income    What do you buy with your salary? Have you ever given careful thought to the value of your income? And do you realise that trade union membership is the simplest and most affordable way to safeguard your income?  Legal Question: Smoking at work    Question: I would like to know if my employer can refuse to allow me to take smoke breaks. Isn’t he infringing on my rights? We have always taken two smoke breaks of 15 minutes each per day, but now our manager is refusing, saying that we cannot smoke on the balcony. What does the law say about this?  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.

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