STRIKES
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Support grows after strike victory | |
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Effective strike rights demanded | |
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CG Smith provident fund |
In 1981 during a wave of strikes which virtually paralysed the Natal sugar industry and quickly spread to other industries, thousands upon thousands of workers resigned from company pension schemes. |
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Bakers strike ends in victory |
One thousand workers in Bakers' Isando and Pinetown factories ended their two week legal strike with a taste of victory. |
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Coal not dole!: an exclusive interview with a British miner |
We reckon there are about 130 production workers in regularly. This would mean about 1 500 to 2 000 per week is being produced, compared to a normal production of about 15 000 to 20 000 tons. |
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British coal strike enters fifth month |
As Britain's coal reserves begin to dwindle, the strike by hundreds of thousands of coal miners has begun to swing in their favour and victory could be on the horizon. |
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Durban's bread strike |
Huddled in cardboard boxes to keep out the cold, some 800 workers at the B B Bread Bakery in Durban's Sydney Road kept up their night-long vigil to prevent the company sneaking in scabs. |
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Three month legal strike |
ABOUT 125 Metal and Allied Workers Union members at Pinetown factory, Natal Die Casting, have been out on a legal strike for over three months. |
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Metal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases |
Disatisfaction with this year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one could be on the way as metal workers attempt to win a better wage increase at plant-level. |
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Sarmcol: the biggest campaign ever |
The Metal and Allied Workers Union's B T R Sarmcol campaign is by far the largest campaign over a single factory ever undertaken by an independent union in this country. |
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Working on the mines is no picnic! |
During the first six months of this year, more than 100 000 miners have taken strike action over wages, bad and unsafe working conditions and the harassment of shaft stewards. |
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Rowen's strike clause |
Jacobs motor component manufacturers, Rowen, and the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union have signed a unique strike agreement. |
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The Ford strike |
On the 9th January, 1980 a settlement was reached which ended the Ford Strike in Port Elizabeth? |
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Wage hike after bitter strike |
In a sequel to the bitter strike at BMW earlier this year, the company and the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union have reached a wage settlement. |
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AECI Vynide workers strike |
WORKERS at New Germany factory, AECI Vynide, went on strike for three-days last month when management tried to bring in short time. |
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The right to strike | |
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Uitenhage strikes - victory for a living wage |
The 3 week long Volkswagen strike and the wage settlement reached earlier this month mark a great break through for workers. |
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Fighting Talk Volume 15 Number 5 June 1961 |
Fighting Talk - a monthly journal for democrats in Southern Africa |
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Fighting Talk Volume 11 Number 10 November 1955 |
Fighting Talk |
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Fighting Talk Volume 10 number 7 August 1954 |
Fighting Talk - independent monthly review |