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Victimization - employer found guilty
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Feb 22, 2016

Victimization - employer found guilty

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Factory flashes
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Feb 22, 2016

Factory flashes

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Fosatu Worker News 8th edition December 1980
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Feb 22, 2016

Fosatu Worker News 8th edition December 1980

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Registration - the big test
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Feb 22, 2016

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 all...

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The Ford strike
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Feb 22, 2016

The Ford strike

On the 9th January, 1980 a settlement was reached which ended the Ford Strike in Port Elizabeth?

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FOSATU guide to Unions organising African workers
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Feb 22, 2016

FOSATU guide to Unions organising African workers

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What are parallel Unions?
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Feb 22, 2016

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...

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Leyland
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Feb 22, 2016

Leyland

After reaching a deadlock and having to go to arbitration the FOSATU affiliate Western Province Motor Assembly Workers U...

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Foreign companies
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Feb 22, 2016

Foreign companies

A FOSATU report released in February shows that in general the record of foreign companies on Union recognition remains ...

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Overseas news
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Feb 22, 2016

Overseas news

This letter was sent by the union members at the Atlas Copco plant in Sweden. MAWU is organising at Atlas Copco in Benon...

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Fosatu Worker News February 1980
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Feb 22, 2016

Fosatu Worker News February 1980

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News in brief
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Feb 22, 2016

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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Feb 22, 2016

Editorial

The year 1983 will test the strength of the trade union movement. Our organisation will be attacked by retrenchment and ...

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Unions mourn Aggett
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Feb 22, 2016

Unions mourn Aggett

The following statement was released by the Food and Canning Workers Union to commemorate the death of Neil Aggctt one y...

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Migrant laws used against workers
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Feb 22, 2016

Migrant laws used against workers

There is increasing evidence that the country's migrant labour laws are being used against workers in an attempt to curb...

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