TRADE UNIONS
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Only workers can directly challenge the capitalists |
Workers around the world understood that if they joined together in groups and demanded better conditions and more pay, the owners of the factories would have to listen to them. |
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Long bitter struggle at Frame has ended |
The longest recognition struggle in South African labour history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members at the giant Frametex mill, the heart of the Frame complex at New Germany near Pinetown, now have the right to be represented by their union. |
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Leather workers victory | |
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FOSATU 1980 - the worker movement grows | |
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Foreign companies |
A FOSATU report released in February shows that in general the record of foreign companies on Union recognition remains bad. |
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What are parallel Unions? |
Parallel unions are like elephants. We all know an elephant when we see one but if asked to describe one we have to stop and think for a while. |
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FOSATU guide to Unions organising African workers |
Table of information |
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Registration - the big test |
FOSATU has made its position quite clear. We believe that the law should not divide workers by race. Workers must be allowed to join the unions of their choice. |
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Factory flashes | |
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Colgate: worker unity wins historic battle |
A number of recent disputes have highlighted the importance of organised workers supporting each other in their hour of need. |
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Fosatu membership soars |
FOSATU membership has soared in the first half of 1981. All regions and all unions report the same story of rapid growth and stronger organisation. |
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Paper Union strikes another blow against Typo`s closed shop in secret ballot victory at Kohler Corrugated | |
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German worker support in Franz Falke dispute | |
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Mondi Paper backs down | |
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"Useless" union kicked out | |
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Closed shop victory |
A attempt to block furniture workers from joining the Paper Wood and Allied Workers Union has failed. |
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Biscuit union crumbles as workers leave to join SFAWU |
For the past three years support for TUCSA's National Union of Operative Biscuit Makers and Packers has been crumbling. |
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MACWUSA slammed | |
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Seven unions take first step towards new federation |
The first steps towards uniting. the progressive trade union movement were taken at a unity summit in Cape Town when seven union groupings committed themselves to the formation of a new federation. |
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R40 000 largest payout ever |
In the largest pay out in a labour dispute in South Africa, workers at Braitex, a Transvaal textile factory, were given R40 000. |