TRADE UNIONS
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Sugar workers sweet on SFAWU | |
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Workers reject TUCSA union | |
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Textile gets its foot in the door | |
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Giant step forward for CWIU as 4000 Sasol workers join | |
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Bophuthatswana puts ban on SA unions | |
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International Metalworkers Federation speaks about SA trade unions | |
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International Metalworkers` Federation expels two SA trade unions | |
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French unions will support FOSATU | |
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End of ten year battle in sight | |
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Farm fare victory ballot | |
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News in brief |
The National Automobile and Allied Workers Union has won a new R2 an hour minimum wage rate at Leyland's Cape Town plant. |
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Union merger | |
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TUCSA unions fail to block NUTW |
TUCSA unions attending the Congress of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation failed to win support for a resolution barring the National Union of Textile Workers from 'poaching' their members. |
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Patons moves to Bophuthatswana |
British multinational, Coats Patons, has decided to close its two Randfontein factories, lay off all the workers, and then reopen in Bophuthatswana where it can expect to pay its new employees a quarter of the wages. |
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Transport workers flock in |
Goods transport workers are flocking to the Transport and General Workers Union and in the past four months the union has won a majority at eight new Transvaal companies. |
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The shrinking car industry | |
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The struggle for trade unions |
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. |
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Premier tussles with SFAWU |
The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union has accused the Premier Group of shifting production from one factory to another in order to crush union organisation. |
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Executive slams union split |
The FOSATU Executive has strongly condemned the four sacked union officials for forming the splinter United Metal Mining and Allied Workers Union. |
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Boycott - FOSATU and other unions put their muscle behind a country-wide consumer boycott |
FOSATU together with the Food and Canning Workers Union, the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union, the General Workers Union, the Cape Town Municipal Workers Association and the National Union of Mineworkers have decided to put their weight behind a national consumer boycott in protest at |