Circular about the meeting between the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCSAWU), the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU) and the Retail and Allied Workers Union (RAWU) with the intention of forming one union in the Commercial and Catering Sector.
FOSATU's massive growth over the past three years has been highlighted in a report submitted to the second FOSATU congress held in Hammanskraal this month.
When workers come together and decide to form an organisation to help them at their work, this organisation is called a trade union. But, as we will see it is not always easy to form trade unions, and workers have had a very long struggle to do so.
