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Biscuit union crumbles as workers leave to join SFAWU
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Feb 22, 2016

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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FOSATUs worker festival
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Feb 22, 2016

FOSATUs worker festival

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Child care centres needed
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Feb 22, 2016

Child care centres needed

The unions started looking at the issue of child care after being alarmed by the rate at which infant deaths are running...

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Retrenchment an excuse to get rid of me says 55-year-old Brown Lung victim
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Feb 22, 2016

Retrenchment an excuse to get rid of me says 55-year-old Brown Lung victim

If it hadn't been for the National Union of Textile Workers Brown Lung Campaign, Gretta Maphumulo wouldn't have ...

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Equal wages for women!
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Feb 22, 2016

Equal wages for women!

The struggle to end discrimination against women recently took another step forward in the Transvaal.

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Coal not dole!: an exclusive interview with a British miner
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Feb 22, 2016

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 pr...

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British coal strike enters fifth month
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Feb 22, 2016

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 th...

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The making of the working class: Part 8 - 1907-1922 white workers revolt
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Feb 22, 2016

The making of the working class: Part 8 - 1907-1922 white workers revolt

The years 1907 to 1922 were a time of violent conflict between workers and capitalists on the Rand.

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Petrol bombs hit unionists homes
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Feb 22, 2016

Petrol bombs hit unionists homes

Petrol bombs were thrown at the homes of two VW full time shop stewards in the early hours of Monday July 30. VW branch ...

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Praise poem to FOSATU
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Feb 22, 2016

Praise poem to FOSATU

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Premier tussles with SFAWU
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Feb 22, 2016

Premier tussles with SFAWU

The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union has accused the Premier Group of shifting production from one factory to another...

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Supervisors demand to be recognised union members
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Feb 22, 2016

Supervisors demand to be recognised union members

Are supervisors workers or part of management? This question is being raised in many companies as more and more supervis...

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Executive slams union split
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Feb 22, 2016

Executive slams union split

The FOSATU Executive has strongly condemned the four sacked union officials for forming the splinter United Metal Mining...

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Huge step towards proper child care
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Feb 22, 2016

Huge step towards proper child care

A huge step forward has been made towards providing proper child care for workers' children.

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FOSATU calls for release of detainees
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Feb 22, 2016

FOSATU calls for release of detainees

The FOSATU Executive has condemned the 'inhuman' detention of two organisers from affiliated unions.

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